Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued to expand on the subject of American wealth. Evidently he had never eaten a meal at the Cambridge lunch counters. "In Germany we pay for all our food; here you get bread and butter free." It is feared that he will never learn differently, as the party lunched yesterday at Massachusetts institute of Technology, and leaves shortly for Niagara Falls, Chicago. Pittsburgh, and Washington...
Quite contrarily, however, for purposes of time-saving and efficiency, wholesale drug and chemical firms in Manhattan decided last week to try a uniform 12 to 1 lunch hour during which all departments of their firms would do no business whatever...
...reason for the arrangement was the expected saving of time and telephone calls by absolute certainty as to the hours when anyone is to be at lunch. Other businesses are watching the experiment. If it succeeds, it will possibly be applied in other lines of work...
...perforce the passengers went to Southampton. Their friends bidding them goodby, said: "We'll stop here until lunch time-in case you come ashore again." And the passengers called back to their friends threading their way through the strikers on the dock...
...morning the cabinet had had a sitting, and then at the lunch hour the Premier had rushed off to call on the Governor General, Lord Byng. All afternoon there was another session of the Cabinet. And the evening saw still a third session-a very rare event indeed at Ottawa-lasting until just ten minutes before Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King had to rush to catch his train. Naturally he was tired...