Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted, was going to be chicken with rice, and he was going to spend the night with his wife at Boston's best hotel. When she failed to appear with the bail he declared: "It is nothing. It is a small matter. One more night after all these years makes...
Frank is a young bum who has done time for vagrancy and assault but works when he has to, gambles when he can, is still more of a smart hobo than a dumb crook. At a California lunchstand and filling station he panhandles the Greek proprietor for a meal, changes his mind about moving on when he sees the Greek's wife, Cora. The Greek offers him a job. He takes it and in 24 hours Cora too. She hates her husband but has too much sense to run away with Frank. Instead, she suggests they murder the Greek...
...comely brunette waitress this week resigned her position in the Union Dining Hall, after Miss Florence Murray, headwaitress had required her to take the curls out of her hair, because she looked "too much like a Hula-Hula girl." It is interesting to know that before every meal each of the waitresses in the Union must pass in review and execute an about-face in front of Miss Murray. Any traces of powder, rouge or lipstick call for serious rebuke. Little wonder that many of the waitresses resort to the Tent and Normandie ballrooms for relief. Well, despite...
...meal with the senior partner of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood would doubtless have made a much better third act than the one offered in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It is a gloomy and exceed ingly unreal courtroom scene in which A. E. Matthews, the suavest English actor on the U. S. stage, bites his nails politely while he refutes a rumbling district attorney. It ends with Lawyer Mitchell telling his wife to blow her nose. She indicates that she loves him still by borrowing his handkerchief...
...secretaries, State superintendents, mission board members, committee men and women. Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, general secretary, told them how income had gone down, how all the churches seemed prostrate with a "spirit of defeatism." The delegates voted to start a coin-box campaign for "a penny-a-meal-for-missions." But raising money, no matter how much needed, by helping businessmen sell their products, they could not go. The C. & C. church club women voted their protest against "exploitation of the women of the churches" by the Goodwin Plan or any other...