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Champagne Taste. In Port Arthur, Ont., Farm Hand Apolinaris Lazdinas, 32, was jailed after he announced in a local restaurant that he could not pay a $4.25 check for the 42 raw eggs, four hot dogs and three hamburgers he had downed for a midnight snack...
...University of Wisconsin recorded in cold statistics some of the symptoms of exam week: the light bills in the residence halls had gone up as much as 15% to $99 a day; coffee consumption was up an estimated 50%. One dormitory snack bar said that it sold 9,000 cups of coffee in a week-a jump of 3,000 over normal...
...investors were buying blue chips for the long pull, there were a number who dreamed of quick killings. The most speculative flyers were taken in the uranium stocks. In Salt Lake City, where new uranium companies were springing up at the rate of one every three days, snack bars featured "uraniumburgers" instead of hamburgers. As it turned out, there was as much uranium in the meat as in the claims on which many of the uranium stocks had been floated. Many of the penny uranium stocks went into a slump. But few speculators were discouraged. Everyone still hoped to make...
...Snack of Glass. When "Queen" Caroline met Lord Byron, even the robustest Whig was rocked by the resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...
...brave man, and so he decided to do something about it. "The attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good taste," he proclaimed. Henceforth, "women dressed improperly" would not be permitted to enter U.S. military installations in his area, including PXs, commissaries, theaters, snack bars and service clubs. Specifically taboo...