Word: diner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stifling, the shuttered windows keeping out the fresh air. Pork, veal and beef seldom appeared on the menus, but there was plenty of venison, wild pig and wildfowl. Shot on estates and in forests, they would not provide an inexhaustible food supply. These dishes were expensive, but the diner had to take them or else get nothing...
...dress hall, dancing will be from 10 to 3 o'clock, and will be preceded by a steak dinner earlier in the evening. During the diner hour the House has provided music and entertainment for the Puritan frolickers...
...shrewd but generous man, a violent stickler over restaurant bills but an open-handed charitarian. When the U. S. entered the World War, he promptly arranged to give half his income to the Red Cross. Yet he was so enraged at being overcharged ten cents in a railroad diner that he spent days brooding and writing letters of protest to the company...
...hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner, five standard Pullmans. It's an Act of God. It won't help you to call the Governor...
...citizen in Vienna's Doebling section took a pot shot from his window at Storm Troopers, missed, killed himself. In a downtown café, a Jewish diner rose, sneered "Heil Hitler!" stabbed his table companions with a butcher knife, then slashed his own throat...