Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime in Queens, and a judge set bail at $100,000 each to help clear their throats. No dice. A friendly bondsman put up $1,300,000 for bail, the grand jury got nothing but grunts, and then it was back to La Stella's for that delayed lunch: escarole in brodo, linguini in clam sauce, striped bass, and wine. And just to show no hard feelings, they even raised a glass and fork in toast to newsphotographers and to the D.A.'s plainclothesmen at the next table...
When the Commissioner of Internal Revenue has lunch with the ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, it's a good possibility that Topic A will be taxes. So it was last week in a private Washington, D.C., dining room where ex-Commissioner Mortimer Caplin broke bread with Sheldon Cohen, the man who succeeded him last year. One issue Caplin wanted to talk about was lack of taxes, specifically from the tax-exempt organizations that profit so neatly from their publications...
...also studies the lives of the courtesans and acquires a French mistress whose advanced love games are teasingly unscored. The one fact of life Francis cannot face is the birth record his wife ferrets out that shows he is the child of a 21-inch circus dwarf and a lunch-wagon cashier. In a hysterical tizzy, Francis flees to Europe with a fresh mustache and a new passport listing his identity as Francois Hillairet...
...might like to spend a spare hour between classes looking at a reserve book, there is no place for them to go. While Radcliffe once housed its books midway between the Quad and the Square (and conveniently across the street from the Graduate Center where many Cliffies eat lunch), now there is nothing but an intellectual wasteland stretching the long mile up Garden Street...
...Towards lunch a few girls who clearly had a sense of the event as an event rather than as an irritation wandered around looking for conversation. Two of them wore clothes of fine paisley and looked like gay moths fluttering from one sweet basil to another. They thought to make themselves appear innocent, but true innocence like true madness never perceives itself, and they achieved the super come-on. At last report they were being escorted out of Mem Hall through the said confetti of fallen circulars...