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Word: lunchroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Stiff Price. In East St. Louis, Ill., Lunchroom Owner Pete Chuluhas was charged with shooting a customer dead for trying to leave without paying for a 15? bowl of chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...getting a blood test, a license, a waiver of the 72 hours' invalidity. They tear in just under the wire for a grimy little civil ceremony that is shattered to bits by the passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks on and listens in as they droop over their inedible food, trying to fight off their bewilderment, their disappointment, their misery, their freezing shyness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Died. Francis T. Maloney, 50, New Dealing senior U.S. Senator from Connecticut; of a heart attack; in Meriden. In 22 years, he rose from counterman in an all-night lunchroom to city editor of the Meriden Record, to Mayor, to Congressman, to U.S. Senator. He had become known as an able though infrequent orator, a "Senator's Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1945 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...Helen, 13, makes coffee, serves in a lunchroom 28½ hours a week; her school-plus-work hours total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Childpower | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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