Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...
...hours after supper will...
...dollar a minute, yessir, a dollar a minute," I heard . . . "Yes, we have two maids now" . . . "And the boss said, 'I've been watching you, young fellow,' and I want . . ." "The hours after supper did it." . . . "'Do you think you could swing Jim Perkins' job?" he asks me and I says, 'Sure, I been working with the I. C. S. evenings!" . . . "I bought Mary that dress she wanted, and I says, 'Take this, I'm making real money...
...Many a supper table, that night, kept its candles wagging until the company came back to blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen...
Last night a score of preparatory school men hurried through supper in the Smith Hall dining room and made their way to the Stadium that they might not miss seeing Nurmi attack his own world record. They were the forerunners of the entries from 38 New England high and preparatory schools, whose representatives will engage in the fortieth annual Harvard Interscholastic Track meet at 1.45 o'clock this afternoon...