Word: midday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University steadily turning. In the course of nine hours they handle often well over 2,500 calls. The peak of their work is reached late in the morning, when professors are telephoning home their inability to attend luncheon, when instructors are begging their wives to postpone the midday meal, and when secretaries are paying each other telephonic visits. At this time four operators are required in order to facilitate this stream of varied calls...
...Kansas hatchet-swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid modern prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed wine jelly...
...only thank you." The small, deep-lidded eyes of Herbert Clark Hoover glistened with welling tears. A sentimental man, it visibly moved him to be back in California in his big rambling mansion on the Stanford University campus. He had not heard any returns yet. It was midday. He was only trying to thank a group of neighbors and admirers who had come up the hill to pay their respects. He had come into the State during the night, been met in the morning at Sacramento by Governor Rolph, getting off his train at Oakland to ferry across San Francisco...
...front cover) One midday last week a maple-&-aluminum elevator shot half a dozen well-known Democrats up to the 21st floor of Manhattan's Empire State Building. They stepped out into the comfortable quarters of the Empire State Club, were bowed into a private dining room overlooking 34th Street. Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters...
...given until midday to get ready while a plane, piloted by one Floyd Clevenger, U. S. barnstormer, was chartered to fly him to Matamoros and the U. S. line...