Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have come home tired after a hard day's work. You find an ignored supper, which you must share with a few "in-laws" who were just "passing by." You feel like reading your evening paper at the table. They feel like talking. You put aside your paper and talk. You make for your easy chair. It is overflowing with Uncle Harry. You take a hard folding chair. You want quiet, rest, repose...
...ward cars filled with . . . excited exclamations at sight of lighted street lamps along the highways. . . . Attendants came in with supper trays for the litter cases and the warm ward car filled with the odor of roast chicken and hot potatoes. A soldier grinned happily: 'Real American chicken...
...copy of the Last Supper made in Germany entirely of postage stamps...
Painter George Luks: ";Da Vinci is the bunk-a mathematician, a subway digger." >An offer by a Manhattan tattooist to prick the Last Supper in eight colors...
...life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside the plate, and read as she ate, "the flowing sentences combing out her thoughts, resting her mind as delicously as if the sea swept rhythmically through her head...