Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included votes to enable such establishments to continue in business. At no time, of course, did he vote for organized bawdy houses of the white slave trade. . . . Still awaiting the Smith reply, voters were reminded that Editor White...
...content that his neighbors, of long standing feud, were with the enemy Yanks. And there were others, non-fighters: The congressmen came out to see Bull Run, The congressmen who like free shows and spectacles, They brought their wives and carriages along, They brought their speeches and their picnic-lunch, Their black constituent-hats and their devotion: Some even brought a little whisky, too. (A little whisky is a comforting thing For congressmen in the sun, in the heat of the sun.) The bearded congressmen with orators' mouths The fine, clean-shaved, Websterian congressmen, Come...
Last week, the widow Angeline, 72, still shuffled about the factory in a faded blue denim dress, big, loose-fitting shoes. Each day at noon she bent over her stove, but she was preparing eggs, not unguents. To her alone is entrusted the task of cooking lunch for Son Louis, now a fattish little man with the traditional French pointed mustache. The widow Angeline has never troubled to learn English, but she knows that Son Louis has made money. She knows he has four motor cars, a home in fashionable Park Avenue, another in a New York suburb, four more...
...relatives sometimes ask us to lunch at the Ritz when they come to New York, but that's really little help when you're starving and can't pay your rent...
Picklepackers, gathered at Chicago, gave way to general rejoicing. They hailed the creation of a new market, a substitute for the free lunch counters which vanished with prohibition. Thanks to the nation's womanhood, bent on reducing, the industry is convalescent...