Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heights. The crows flapped up from the garbage in the slums to be whirled helplessly to the base of the two peaks, where they dropped on limp wings. Children hung their snow sleds beside the door and squatted down to a Hokkaido (Japan's New England) supper of fish, beans and rice. In the Bay a forest of masts swayed wildly. But wind and cold are nothing new to the citizens of Hakodate, Japan's ninth biggest city and enterprising port of a northern island that is nearly the climatic counterpart of the Canadian Northwest...
...When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide to fell a span of oxen. Rasputin wolfed these whole...
Stenben's $.30-.35-.40. No cover. No minimum. Jack Fisher's orchestra. Mediocre orchestra and good, moderately priced food. Nice place for an after-the-theatre supper. Not for the Big Date. Don't dress...
...year President Cleveland first took office (1885), James Butler was head steward of Manhattan's Hotel Windsor and lived in Mrs. O'Connor's rooming house. He went to Washington to supervise the inaugural supper. The memory of that evening was so nightmarish that when, 24 years later, he was invited to attend President Taft's inaugural ball as a guest, he flatly refused. That year he was living on a 350-acre estate next to John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. and was virtually the owner of a $15,000,000 grocery business...
Steuben's--$.30-.35-.40. No cover. No minimum. Jack Fisher's orchestra. Mediocre orchestra and good, moderately priced food. Nice place for an after-the-theatre supper. Not for the Big Date. Don't dress...