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...evening meal (high tea) consists of fish (cod, sardines, herring) or a bit of cheese, tea and crackers. For supper there is tea and bread...
Hoarding for Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
...Council had pointed out that most places of entertainment opened at eight, thereby leaving a student no place to go in the time lag after supper, but the Masters pointed out that a couple, having left the House for supper "might as well stay out." To the argument advanced by the Council that the proposed change would not violate the principles already established by the Oxford Card system, the Masters replied merely that--with the College working its way back to its traditional position, no further relaxation was desirable...
...There stood an enormous lady giant. She was a good 20 feet tall, with nasty little red eyes and scraggly hair. . . . She carried Jack into the castle and set him to washing the giant's supper dishes from the night before [deep sigh']. And no hot water! As he was finishing, he heard a terrifying sound. Clump, clump, clump! Someone with size 36 shoes was coming down the stairs...
...Chesterfield Supper Club, with vocalists, 25-piece orchestra and pressagents, rehearsed and broadcast twice from a TWA Constellation 20,000 feet above Manhattan. The guitarist got so sick at rehearsal that he couldn't go up for the show...