Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the end of lunch 75 indignant signatures had appeared. Another sheet of theme paper was added, and twenty more signatures went in during the afternoon. Then two more men signed their names and all further signing ceased. Those two men were procters and under their names was written. "According to the college regulations no notice may be posted without the approval of the head proctor or the college janitor...
...have already spoken too often of the so-called Algonquin group. Not having eaten lunch in that much publicized hostelry for over five months, so far as I know the group may be actually a myth by now, as it always tended to be. Still, Richard Barthelmess, a most serious-minded young man, spoke of it with awed accents not long ago; so probably the effervescent Mr. Woollcott is still its gayest respected member and it has probably become the Rotary Club of literary New York...
...joint subcommittee which was conferring on this question met at 10:30 A. M. The discussion grew hot; the committee forgot to have lunch. At 5 :00 P. M. the Conference adjourned with no results achieved. Next day it was resumed. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, presented a resolution...
...three years.* The best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during the lunch hour; can obtain a clear view of the sweep of evolution on his way home from work; . . . Sundays in the park he can carry some of the little blue books and, when he grows tired of feeding peanuts to the monkey, he can read about the upward march...
Gilda Gray, Follies contortionist: " At my Rockville Centre, L. I., home I entertained 100 children from a nearby bible school. I gave them a picnic lunch; I gave them games and folk dances on the green...