Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway through his three-day meeting with the Kremlin leaders, Mollet invited the Moscow ambassadors of twelve NATO countries to lunch, to assure them that the Russians now knew they could not split NATO. "It took a Socialist, a man of the left, to convince them," he said. "I fought harder for NATO here in Moscow than I ever did in Paris...
...house system. One of the basic premises of the existing system is that by collecting undergraduates to eat, a valuable mental collision is generated, which is lost by those who eat in clubs or local restaurants. Undeniably this is a potent argument against the change as it applies to lunch and dinner, not to breakfast. Certainly most students who miss the morning meal do so in order to stay in bed rather than to find better company or menus. If the Council's report at least leads to adoption of voluntary breakfasts, it will prove worth the trouble...
...your cup?" is the non-U equivalent of "Have some more tea?" The reply "I don't mind if I do" is definitely non-U, but "this was U about a century ago." The U speaker eats lunch in the middle of the day ("luncheon is old-fashioned U") and dinner at night. He never wears a dress-suit, and the "sentence 'Shall we wear evening dress?' would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank...
...great causes that they merchant to the plain people, nor do they ever quite believe in the infamy of the opposition. The plain people are always outraged when they discover evidences of this tolerance, just as an ignorant litigant is outraged when he sees his lawyer eating lunch with the lawyer of his opponent. But it is precisely such cynicism toward undying doctrines and holy causes that makes civilized life possible in the world...
...have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old André Millon. To boost the family's sagging revenues, Chapotin started the successful Pam-Pam chain of quick-lunch restaurants, two years ago quietly opened a Pam-Pam in the Café de la Paix bar, around the corner from the Place...