Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, Mathews secluded himself and consulted attorneys, but wild | rumors were afloat-that Royer, the Lyons electrical magnate, was acting for the French Government; that British representatives followed Matthews to renew their offers and prevent the escape of the "ray" from England; that Ambassador Herrick had invited Matthews to lunch at the American Embassy, and that U. S. naval attaches were investigating unofficially. The Navy Department denied any offer. The British Under Secretary for the Air Ministry, interpellated in the House of Commons, said Matthews had not demonstrated his claims to their satisfaction, and that the phenomenon of stopping...
...paternal prefect immediately ordered a referendum of the worried families of the 260,000 schoolchildren of Paris. The present school-hours are 8:30 to 11:30 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Was the hour and a half lunch-hour satisfactory to the mama and papa or little Jacques or Suzanne? Where papa was a workman he said "Mais non!" He came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child...
...players stopped for lunch at 1.30 in the boathouse, where Master of Ceremonies C. J. Swan '01 and Assistant Dean Little delivered speeches appropriate of the occasion...
...After lunch the party formed in order of classes, and headed by the brass band of 20 pieces, marches across Soldiers' Field with banners on high, to the two sections reserved for them on the third base line, where they were met by their wives and daughters...
...Gifford Gordon of Melbourne, Australia, will speak today at the Liberal Club lunch at 1.20 o'clock...