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This novel took four years to write, but tells of the happenings of only 24 hours. It starts with rich, spiteful old Hector Champion's dinner party in his Manhattan apartment, then follows each diner home: Spinster Savina Jerrold to her spinster-shared brownstone house, her spinster memories; Clubman Jim Towner to his night-club mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly...
...charge of the half dozen porters attached to the four sleepers, diner, observation car, and baggage caboose, is none other than Joe Hughes, colored porter, who back in 1919 was attached to the car which brought Harvard's team to the Tournament of Roses at Pasadena. Joe was not long in recognizing Arnold Horween, now the University's head coach, as the Crimson's captain, and Eddie Casey, now its backfield coach, as the star back of the Harvard outfit of ten years...
...Vice President is the administration's prime diner-out. His presence as the highest-ranking guest is sought by all hostesses. Vice President Curtis has dinner invitations stretching through till June...
...sleeping cars are clean and well served. . . . The trains do about 25 miles per hour with frequent stops to fuel at wood piles along the way. . . . About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
...family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors" if the diner orders and pays for an additional meal with each round...