Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan, for it has not yet become a law, has much to recommend it. We can all think of a residence district which some ten years ago was considered exclusive--some would have called it "high-brow". And then--the relentless march of fruit stores and tailor shops and lunch rooms, not to mention the red-front grocery. The "people of quality" fied. There followed a rapid decline in property value and a loss of much money. In the end, the locality was not good for much of anything...
This mistake elicits much laughter, and a witty graduate who has just had lunch wants to know, as one man to the rest of the house, if it is puss-in-the-corner that is being played...
This Saturday, before the Brown game, a buffet lunch will be served in the Living Room from 12 to 1.30 o'clock. Tickets at 75 cents per person will be sold only to members, who may, however, bring guests. A similar buffet lunch will be served on Saturday, November 19, before the Yale's game...
...members of 1920 who can come are urged to be present today. It is planned to start the lunch at precisely 12.30 and to end promptly in an hour so that men can get back to their offices...
...Wednesday, September 28, there was published in this column an editorial entitled "Food for Thought". We commented on a recent report by the State Commission, quoted in the New York papers of September 27, to the effect that armchair lunch-rooms were making gross profits of over 200 per cent. It was a supposedly humorous editorial, intended to "enliven the column...