Word: eating
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dinner-tables here in Cambridge are not mirrors of etiquette, - perhaps it's a pity they are not. We do not eat our meals with that "repose of manner" which characterizes a diner-out and benefits one's digestion, nor is our after-dinner conversation of that prudish kind which is heard in some circles of society. Still there are some suggestions, even in a book on the ceremonies of polite life, that are worth following, and one of these is the banishment of "shop" from table conversation...
...down to a supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water was dispensed with, owing to a recent drowning accident, and he ate eighteen tarts within the time, having forty-five seconds...
...idea of visitors coming to the Hall at meal-time is no less absurd than it would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...
...equal all men are. Have not all men eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and limbs alike? Have not all men minds and thoughts? Do not all men eat, and drink, and sleep, and talk? And does the fact that a man eats, or drinks, or sleeps, or talks more than his neighbor make him that neighbor's superior? The idea is preposterous, it is shameful, it is damnable. The man who publicly declares that there are lower classes is worthy of the gallows...
...came to pass that Cute waxed hungry, and he went into a shop and began to eat. And the master of the shop said unto him, " Hast thou wherewith to pay for that which thou eatest?" And Cute said unto him, " Hold thy peace...