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Somewhat concerned over the drop in enrollment due to student deaths, Bowser officials decided to permit students to dine in the dining halls again. This thought was embodied in the subsequent memorandum...
...soup he took was Elephant Soup, and the fish he took was Whale, . . . And Noah, he often said to his wife as he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes, if it doesn't get into the wine." - G. K. Chesterton, Wine and Water...
Says he: "I always have to start off three times before I get going, and I often find that what I wrote the third time is exactly what I wrote the first." His column done, Walker goes home, undresses, rests. In midevening he goes out to dine. He eats at various cafes and nightclubs, in many of them cuffo. The ethics of this does not bother him, since he feels he is much like the sportswriter who gets passes to ball games. Besides Walker gets only $50 a week expense money...
...like to walk and talk with the Archbishop of Canterbury (he has a laugh that rattles windows)-or knows the inside of H. G. Wells' house near Regent's Park (he likes to play charades, brags about his diabetes)-or what it is like to dine with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trades Union Club (he drops cigaret ashes on his front, wears colored shirts, talks about crossing carrier pigeons with parrots so they can deliver verbal messages...
...traditional for the men of the House of Marlborough to marry pretty women, love the British Empire, dine well and raise hell in politics. Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston, had "force, caprice and charm." At times he also had bitter words for his colleagues in the House of Commons and blunt criticism of mismanaged government...