Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear that there is only one solution to the problem. Raising the rate two dollars a week would mean ony a slight expense for six weeks. This suggestion has often been made by students who feel that the improvement would be more than worth the extra charge, and should be entertained more seriously than hitherto. Instead of furnishing menus that are just sufficiently tempting to keep back a torrent of complaints, Lehman Hall would do well to avoid the appearance of making reductions for the students' benefit and provide more attractive meals, regardless of the inconsequential increase in price...
...village dance while Simon the hired man (Stuart Erwin) is getting drunk on corn whiskey. For a genre incident-of the kind which have made Stong contributions unique in the current cinema-the best shot in The Stranger's Return is probably the harvesting dinner, with extra leaves in the Storr table, Grandpa Storr grunting at the head of the board and a great company of farmers slobbering down their food-"not," says - Grandpa, "like pigs-like threshers...
...perhaps you prefer Bostonianism strictly modern. Then have you tried a "dollar hop" at the East Boston Airport? You can hop for fifty cents at another one, but most people would prefer to spend the extra half-dollar. Saturday afternoons the Army planes go up, and Sunday afternoons the others, and there are always passenger planes coming in or taking off. Sunday afternoons during the summer there is sometimes a special program, and in any case a flight, or even the sight of others trying it, is a certain cure for boredom...
...that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw. Tension meanwhile was slackening. "I will lunch with the U. S. Delegation tomorrow...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...