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...Grub Stake. In Honolulu, Joseph Rodriguez told police that his lunch pail had been stolen, said he used it as a bank, had just deposited 3 sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Darkest America | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three Cs and a D | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...dawn raid on a well-stocked refrigerator, installed for his convenience and safety near the presidential bedroom on the third floor of the White House. Grub: not specified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Life with Harry | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...Grub Street Hack. Elizabeth was a heroine, but not for long. In Grub Street a hack named Dr. John Hill, who combined the practice of medicine with the writing of plays and a column in the London Daily Advertiser ("His farces are Physic, his Physic a Farce is," said Actor David Garrick), went and talked with Virtue Hall. Under pressure she admitted that her evidence at the Old Bailey had been false from beginning to end. In the penny press, the taverns and gaming houses, the case was reopened. Londoners divided themselves into Canningites and Egyptians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery of the Vanishing Virgin | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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