Word: meals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under this plan the waiters were to work in two shifts of 16 waiters each, every other day and alternate Sundays. They were required to be in the dining hall seven hours and 20 minutes a day, of which time one half hour before each meal was allowed for eating, making a total of five hours and 50 minutes of actual work. Thus in a bi-weekly period the waiters were to work 40 hours and 50 minutes, for which they would receive 21 meals and $8.00 in cash (or meals), that is the equivalent of two weeks' meals less...
Nine families could not stomach the exotic roast. Sixteen families reported having enjoyed their meal to the utmost. The Government was elated. "That was a tough old bull," said officials. "All would have relished tender calf meat." Experiments continued upon...
...where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone and gloom-benighted, beleaguering in the darkness of his mind the fortress of eternal knowledge...
...Chicago, one Campbell McCarthy, waited in a death-house to be hanged for murder. He had only one meal left to eat on earth, and that he knew would be a good one-chicken. Suddenly the jailer came to his cell and told him his execution had been stayed. Mr. McCarthy's face brightened, then fell. Said he: "Captain, lemme ask you one favor. Lemme stay in here tonight, Boss, and eat ma meal. Lemme eat that chicken just like I was going...
...following excerpt would seem to indicate that food outside of regular meal hours was at a premium...