Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of a high class Biltmore clock at which to meet your friends: a restaurant, bar, hotel, athletic club, and game room all rolled into one posh ball. To its dining halls an average of 500 people come for lunch every day, well over 200 more for dinner, and about 70 for breakfast. Its 60-odd rooms are almost always filled, and the seven private dining halls, more often than not, are used for class meetings and private parties...
...upon a time their lived a capten who loved food. His name was Bill. He married a woman called Ann. Who could cook very nicely, but he didn't love her. He only married her because she could cook. One day she died, but Bill dident mind until lunch-time...
Good Fellowship. A Red Cross lunch of soup, bread, cheese and sliced sausage was about to be served when the visitor entered the camp dining hall. It was promptly forgotten as photographers and newsmen milled among the refugees who were swarming to greet the caller. Holding his own bravely in the melee, Nixon had a word or a smile or a handshake for anyone who could reach him. "I wish we had time to greet you all personally," he said. The refugees responded with a rousing, "Long live Hungarian-American friendship...
...dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with penicillin, but it won't solve the problem until these people get more meat at lunch, and tiles instead of straw over their heads...
Banker William Rose of Ellenville, N.Y., third-generation president of Ellenville's Home National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head...