Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero to 140° F., there is air conditioning. Fare...
...tell him she has swallowed her gum-a call which is intercepted, with much double entendre, by the consul's wife. After learning Buzzy's real identity, Elsa parts from him only to be reunited after many vicissitudes when he is a rundown member of a dilapidated supper band and she, in a new Waltz Palace, is the rage of Manhattan...
Rachel grew fond of him, but it was Zanko she loved. And it was to find Zanko that she ran away. In Istanbul, where she danced and sang for her supper in waterfront dives, she found him. Alas, he was not what he seemed. All he wanted was . . . her body. When Rachel discovered that the real Zanko had been his twin brother, whom he had murdered, she drowned herself. Old Baruch, who had been searching for her, found her in time to get her death mask made, sent it to Michael as a souvenir...
Following this final session, there will be cocktails and a buffet supper either at the CRIMSON building or perhaps at the Faculty Club, where round table sessions are to be held. Students and faculty members will have a chance after dinner to meet and question guests without the formality of the round table discussion, and, if the experience at Princeton can be used as a basis for judgment, this part of the Conference is expected to be one of the most interesting...
Saturday afternoon will be occupied by ski races which will include events for men as well as for women and combined events. In the late afternoon tea dances will be held and supper and a dance given by the Athletic Association at Alumnae Hall will mark the end of the carnival...