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...plans have been made to install a soda fountain in the night-lunch room. Complete equipment, including a large stove and refrigerator, has been installed in the room. The space allotted to this equipment is enclosed in a kitchen at one end of the yellow walled room. At the other end are two entrances and a door leading to the wash room. Another door opens into the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT CAFETERIA WILL CATER TO UNIVERSITY | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...Temple's play based on the life of the Lambs, the Harvard Dramatic Club made a felicitous choice for their fall production. The play, progressing evenly from beginning to end, is dramatic more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

...beavers, peacocks, lizards, badgers, foxes and a honking goose named Susie gathered in Madison Square Garden for Manhattan's third annual pet show last week. With them were exhibited aquariums, kennels, portable cages, bird baths, crates, pots, pans, ice cream, candy, bird seed, fish food, animal crackers, perfume, fountain pens, fur coats, dog biscuit and a disposition on the part of metropolitan newshawks to tell tall tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pet Show | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed on the He de France last week the grateful newshawks gave him a fountain pen, gold mounted, suitably inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Salesman & Suite | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...crusades. We have too little faith, and too much education for great journeyings into the cities of God. But De Soto died far down the Father of the Waters, Henrick Hudson set sail to find a North West Passage, and Ponce de Leon died in his search for a fountain of eternal youth. Something of this spirit drove men out west in the country's early years and sent them across the Panhandle into Texas, that they might fight for life in those far regions. Something of this spirit brings men out of Texas today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/24/1931 | See Source »

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