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Prowling on, the camera grinder paused before the tiny Café Masalli, since 1705, a snug topers' haven. Within, a paunchy Hungarian was munching a sandwich, playing with a pretzel, drinking beer. He too consented to emerge and pose. He was Francis Molnar, most famed of Hungarian dramatists, illustrious in Manhattan as the author of Liliom, and The Swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Max's Festival | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...bedecks, for tonight, as they say in detective stories is the night? The night? Yes, the night when the Choral Society from up the line far past the Sargent portals toward the sun does its stuff, parades its pomp, sings, in fact, at the Pops. And to hug a pretzel while the Radcliffe Choral Society makes merry and out jockies Jacchia is something, or more. But duty is duty as the street cleaner told the cop, or more...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/18/1926 | See Source »

...model any more. I had just heard the Spring Song and was smoking a very good cigar, Corona Belvedere (adv.) and for a moment I forgot that Plato had very little regard for the less intellectual sex. But it was only a moment. I remembered Plato and munched a pretzel, remembered Epicurus and prayed for beer...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...Pretzel, his German valet ; an interesting cuss, with a penchant for legerdemain, W. R. Heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joan of Arc, OR THE OLD MAID OF NEW ORLEANS. | 4/20/1885 | See Source »

...elsewhere, life is not without its crosses, especially if you are a student freshly matriculated. You may be strolling along the narrow Hauptstrasse-no German town is complete without a Hauptstrasse-engaged in confine your new impressions or in thinking of the flaxen-haired Gretchen who served you that pretzel and that last glass of beer, when, on a sudden your meditations are rudely dispersed and your thoughts brought to earth again. Looking up, you find you have brushed against a man who appears for all the world like a battered veteran of the wars, but whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY LIFE AT HEIDELBERG. | 5/6/1884 | See Source »

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