Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Square is not a Square, and it is not in Harvard," asserted Bruce U. Totalizer, tip sheet operator and handicapper in the Department of Geography, to his Radcliffe class yesterday. "It begins in a night lunch and ends in a graveyard," he continued, "and there is a big hole in the middle, out of which proletariat spew...
...they did not know it, it was an extraordinary dose of education. All Juan Tomas' 40 schoolboys and girls (aged 5 to 13), except three who were ill, arrived sober and silent, drinking in everything with their eyes. They were marched first into a park for a picnic lunch and ice cream. Five little girls found they did not like ice cream, gave their cones away. The rest nibbled tentatively, then gulped...
...After lunch they looked at Albuquerque's buildings, rode on Albuquerque policemen's motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
Melvin did not return to work after lunch yesterday and could not be reached for comment...