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...probably worthwhile for the summer school student, prone to behind-the-napkin whispering at the Union on the slowness of service and lack of desert-talent among the cook-force, to ponder on these early battles in the cause of wholesome, 100-percent edible eatables. The first head of the college, the wicked Mr. Eaton mentioned last time, fed his long-suffering students, according to contemporary accounts, "hasty pudding with goat's dung in it, and mackerel served with their guts in them." Before skipping this plainspoken, if indelicate piece of seventeenth-century realism the early prevalence of Hasty pudding...
...lunching with Secretary of State Stimson. Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover tiptoed into the dining room. Into the President's ear he whispered the news: "Mr. Coolidge has just died of heart failure." After a stunned moment, the President pushed back his chair, laid down his napkin, strode to his office. There he hastily dispatched a special message to Congress, issued a proclamation for 30 days of public mourning. Within five minutes, down to half-staff came the White House flag. Down came the flags of Washington, of the nation...
...family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin over his head, sits down on a stone to make friends with the lizards. The efforts of William Colombe's children to control the follies of an old manwhom they have been accustomed to revere and over whom they have no authority is more tragic than the old man's maundering...
...wouldn't be eating anything at all, but would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...
...with his unique camera hidden beneath a napkin, Editor Bott's "Cyclops" can and does snap the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the act of sleeping through a speech at an Anglo-Finnish Society dinner. At the English-Speaking Union dinner, the Archbishop of Canterbury was snapshot six times, peering, grimacing, pinching his chin. Timothy A. Smiddy, High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, was seen smacking his lips over what was clearly not his first glass...