Word: diner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hurtling railroad diner causes many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. Seasoned travelers know a goopish trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...make sure that none of his American customers ever got any such specimen of Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...
...miles west of Altoona, Pa., the lead locomotive of the crack Pennsylvania sleeper lost its footing. With a night-splitting roar, it ground into the ties, buckled, and took off over a 55-ft. embankment, pulling with it the second locomotive, a baggage car, three Pullmans and a diner...
...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...
Table Talk. In Billings, Mont., Elaine Kjos one day murmured in a restaurant: "I wish I had a name like . . . Smith," heard a diner say "My name's Smith," a few months later married...