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...amazement and confusion twenty minutes later, just as he was getting his teeth into his book, a smiling bus boy entered the Library with a napkined tray which he set down on the stool in front of the Senior. "The hostess says that your every wish is her command," the bus boy whispered huskily. "Any answer?" "Nope, no answer," stammered the red-faced Senior as he peeked guiltily under the napkin, then sneaked outside to gulp down his steaming order of griddles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

...writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters, he disrupted many a staid restaurant by waving a napkin over his head to get attention. Generous, he would never lend a friend less than $5, said he was ashamed to ask for the return of a smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Yardlings have signed up for no less than 78 different activities ranging all the way from napkin ring collecting to numismatics a survey of the Union hobby sheets now reveals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music, Skiing, and Ping Pong Prove Yardling Favorites in Hobby Survey | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize. A petitioner, slightly bowed, holds his hand to his mouth "in a gesture of respect and appeal." One of the court officials appears to be a Food Taster, as he holds a napkin. The monarch and his son grasp twin-budded lotus blossoms, symbols of royalty. Their shoes are like those of present-day Iranians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...pass a napkin, please...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WE'LL STAND AT THE BAR" | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

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