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Word: midday (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glowing sun at midday Overhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they did not think such a meal sufficient for midday. Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was just experimenting and wanted to find out. Recent dinner guests at the executive mansion have reported frankfurters as the entrée. "I should be most unhappy," says Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Washington Street, Manhattan, early last month opened the Midday Soup Kitchen, serving 300 lunches of soup, bread & milk to the indigent. Observing the walls decorated with pictures of Cunard Liners, reporters last week discovered that the kitchen's manager is Lady Sparks, wife of Cunard's New York manager, Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks. "Really, " smiled she, "I'm only the cook here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Each day of the College year Phillips Brooks House affords commuters a place in which to eat their midday meal. It is also possible to obtain cocoa and milk at a small cost. A recent step towards facilitating the noon hour arrangements of the commuters was the trial engagement of a sandwich agency, which will supply sandwiches at a low cost, commencing early in the second half-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE INVITES TUTORS TO HAVE LUNCH | 2/1/1933 | See Source »

...book neatly back into the case. He evened up pens on the desk. He idly fingered a jigsaw puzzle with his name on it. He went "down cellar," watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Coolidge | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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