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...month grocery bill for his "Little White House" at Sea Girt, then ordered an investigation of his quartermaster general's housekeeping operations. Items, in a month, for 20 people: $172 for soda water; averages of $30.23 a day for meat, $22.36 for poultry, $7.83 for lobster, $7.23 for caviar; eleven pounds of butter a day, nine dozen eggs a day. "I would say that was enough eggs," figured the Governor, "for a daily Easter egg roll on the Sea Girt lawn...
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...
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...