Word: repast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed by people "prominent in social or theatrical cir- cles," searching for a clew in the "treasure hunt." The clew, discovered either by Gladys Cooper (English actress) or Talullah Bankhead (U. S. actress) led to the home (Norfolk House) of Mrs. Brown, Pittsburgh millionairess, who served them a sumptuous repast and dashing music. (None of the above facts could be verified.) . . . At a dinner to members of his Cabinet at the Wembley Exhibition, Premier MacDonald announced that he had been offered by a U. S. agency thousands of pounds for his biography, doubled if he would write a biography...
...material in the current Advocate in creditable; some of it is excellent. The most interesting tendency in the number as a whole is the subordination of narrative. Until a short time ago, all college papers used to serve a regular repast of warmed over O. Henry, composed, at first largely, and at last entirely, of the condiment of Surprise. It is pleasant to remark that the influence of this absurd literary mountebank has finally waned, if not vanished. The two stories in the present Advocate, which I take as typical, are transitional; the old short-story formula is gone...
...Notice: All students in the first and second years of their sojourn here shall be required to bathe their faces and hands each day upon arising; their hands before each repast; and their entire persons once within each seven-day pan. Registration for the bath shall be made in the office of the water-commissioner at least one day in advance. Registration after the bath shall be made at once to the Faculty of Hygiene...