Word: grilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...places in Champaign are few. Some are mere "greasy spoons." No matter, men must eat. Every place was crammed with yammering students. Sweaty waitresses, coughing waiters sloshed their soup bowls down in the few table houses. Counter men yelled their orders through the aperture. Cooks slid steaks across the grill into plates, and called them done. Roasts were rare that day. No one was particular. Restaurateurs were happy, were economizing, were profiting...
...been written? That was what reporters wanted to know. Poet Markham winked. He expressed his confidence in the facility of Louis Untermeyer, of William Rose Benet, of Edna St. Vincent Millay, of other poets who dine together from time to time, all sitting around a table in a Manhattan grill while the elbows of the knowing onlookers dig the ribs of the innocent ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham, a joke went round the company...
...rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks. It has a dance hall, a dining-room, a grill, a reception hall, a ladies' room, a croquet lawn, a smoking room, the only colored golf professional in the U. S.- Robert E. Lee. These details appeared in the press when a controversy between the officers of the club (led by George E. Bates, Grand Secretary of the Negro Elks...
...Recreation Building at the other end of the quadrangle from the Auditorium, is the social center of the Business School. On the first floor will be a large lobby, grill room and lounge. On the second floor, a large space has been provided which will be cut up into meeting rooms and club rooms. In this building twenty squash courts are also provided with the necessary lockers, and showers in the basement. As exercise plays such an important part in the life of a man taking intensive training, much emphasis has been put on his physical fitness...