Word: lobstering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday's meeting was hastily adjourned, however, when underwear-clad Nick sat down on a well-filled lobster trap...
Leaning too heavily on the glass covering which sheltered the exhibits an over-zealous Biology D student had come out of his daze to find himself staring at an equally wide and glassy-eyed speciman of early American lobster. "Pardon me," was his sole comment. "Think nothing of it," replied his victim...
Pattern for the new press section is a regular City Room. "Beat" men will cover the War Department, interview generals, turn in stories to rewrite men. A lobster trick editor stays on until midnight to handle late queries from morning papers. Only because of limited space did Lieut. Colonel-Editor Grogan reluctantly abandon his plan to install a regulation U-shaped copy desk...
...wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food...
This is a Brooklyn classroom. It is nearly midnight. Since early morning these machines have been humming, training men for U. S. industrial defense. This shift, the lobster trick, started at 10:30 p.m. At 2 the men will stop for coffee; at 5 a.m. they will yield their machines to the next shift...