Word: meals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days, food and tobacco are the two chief stimulants to well-considered syllables. A good meal provides the indispensable feeling of comfort; a cigar or a pipe prolongs the sensation of ease which, if not interrupted by an unseemly clatter of dishes, is provocative of talk and thought. And in college, the conversation can never be entirely of finances and finesses. Since the business of a student is culture, his shop talk necessarily is of the arts...
...society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction and restoration of his future wife's aunt's parrot; an occasional square meal. The Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman...
...hobo is far from being the comic figure he is often thought to be. In the first place, as we are often reminded, he is not to be confused with a tramp: he rides on freight trains, true enough, and often panhandles a meal; but he expects to work for a living; is, in fact, a migratory laborer. In the second place, although many of us do not realize it, he is an almost indispensable unit in the economic structure of the country. He is the gentleman who picks our oranges, lemons and grapefruit in Florida and California...
...Union City, N. J., a sleek stranger, having eaten and paid for a large meal in the restaurant of one John Thanos, asked courteously if he might use the telephone. Mr. Thanos heard him give a woman's name. It was evidently a long distance call, but Mr. Thanos, not wishing to appear discourteous, did not listen to the conversation. The stranger talked for 41 minutes. Courteous Thanos polished the glasses out of earshot...
...arrangement of shifts should be changed so as to begin with the evening meal and end with the noon meal of the following day. This will eliminate the lack of balance in working hours and the excessive pressure of the "on" days of the present system...