Word: lunches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ample time." But, when he left Mexico, the President-Elect said nothing about the invitation, declared that he was going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that he is in the U. S. to seek refinancing of the debt. En route he stopped off for lunch with Mr. Lamont in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 23), and after seeing President Hoover in Washington will return to Wall Street. If Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca should hasten from Mexico City to be in New York at that time, and several correspondents have predicted that he will, the weather...
...time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers...
...German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg had his 50-year-old friend and comrade General Mackensen privately, intimately for lunch...
...however, as is earnestly hoped, some revision downward may be made in the minimum board charge, there will be ample opportunity for the existence of clubs which serve one meal a day. Such organizations have a successful prototype in the Metropolitan lunch clubs, and would perform a valuable service in bringing men of different Houses together several times a week. A revision of the club system in this direction would retain most of the real advantages of the present system and do away with the isolated clique tendency which finds its fullest and worst development in so many other American...
Everything so far seems satisfactory. The workers present an excellent cross-section of democracy. They give every evidence of enjoying the customary routine of industrious labor. Their conduct is satisfactory and has given no offence to the Vagabond. Casual inquiry into their lunch pails reveals little violation of the law, while their literature so far as the Vagabond's knowledge of reading French and Latin goes, is at present no threat to undergraduate morals...