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Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey took a look at a one-month grocery bill for his "Little White House" at Sea Girt, then ordered an investigation of his quartermaster general's housekeeping operations. Items, in a month, for 20 people: $172 for soda water; averages of $30.23 a day for meat, $22.36 for poultry, $7.83 for lobster, $7.23 for caviar; eleven pounds of butter a day, nine dozen eggs a day. "I would say that was enough eggs," figured the Governor, "for a daily Easter egg roll on the Sea Girt lawn...
That the flame of patriotism, unless carefully hedged, bursts into a roaring, uncontrollable fire, has been driven home to us on several occasions. At the modest soda fountain where we recently had our afternoon tea our request for a lump of sugar was countered by the aggressive inquiry whether we didn't know there...
Author Oppenheim was born to write romans d'intrigue, and born at exactly the right time. He wrote for the Europe which was preparing feverishly for World War I. His brand of literary Scotch & soda was as welcome in British clubs as U.S. club cars. "Opp" loved his age and his age loved "Opp." It also paid him well...
...learned of the Renaissance and Romantic painters of Europe, to whom he is often compared, he got entirely from U.S. museums and reproductions. He worked his way through Manhattan's Art Students League and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts taking jobs as a dishwasher, cook and soda jerker, kept on painting in his own way, modeled his methods not on the French Impressionists or the U.S. Realists, but upon Delacroix and Tintoretto...
...five minutes a half hundred reporters, photographers, British military and naval attaches filled the diner. At 11:58 Winston Churchill waddled in, waved, moved to the middle of the car. His left hand clutched a tall whiskey-&-soda...