Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruling drew sharp comment from the owner of the company which distributes the common-type pinball machines used in three local restaurants --Elsie's Lunch, Mikes' Club, and Thommy's Arcade...
...Colleague Cook, he had declared on the television show that he had reported the bribery attempt to his World-Telegram superiors. Later, he toned down that flat statement, merely claimed that he had mentioned the matter to City Editor Norton Mockridge "in the course of a long lunch" several weeks after the bribe was allegedly offered. But Mockridge denied ever having heard of the sorry business-and at that point Rewriteman Fred Cook followed Legman Gene Gleason right off the World-Telegram payroll...
...called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
...under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This...
...sporting the National's green blazer and a grey and tan checkered sports shirt, replied confidently: "Don't worry, it will burn off." Sure enough, sunshine poked through the clouds that afternoon; after some paper work at his office above the pro shop and lunch with Mamie and the Aliens, Ike had his round of golf...