Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute started about some cabbages in 1917 reached its climax last night in Charles' Lunch when Herr Alexander Engel was attacked by a truck-driver who wished to get his revenge before the "Professor" should leave for Europe...
...clatter of tableware that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended its run, the passenger, well-fed, well-rested...
...clock, there was a half an hour's recess while the President and Mrs. Coolidge ate a hurried lunch. The diplomatic group withdrew to attend the usual breakfast given by the Secretary of State at the Pan-American Union...
President Lowell, who expresses deep regret at the passing of Memorial, attributes it to an increasing habit of "eating about" at quick-lunch counters, cafeterias and the like. This is one of those explanations that need explaining. If it is true that civilized man cannot live without dining, it is doubly true that the hours of prandial relaxation have a peculiar value in undergraduate life. Dr. Lowell speaks of Memorial as a place where "men could meet together constantly, have club tables and get the advantage that comes in college life from association with a group of comrades around...
...bask in his calm effulgence? He was a little radical in some things and boldly said that if we had no Greek or Latin, then we should read the ancients with a trot, though he expressed it a little differently. But what he would have said about these quick-lunch spellings is not so certain...