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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which read "NO TIPPING. Our waiters are glad to serve you without gratuities," and which usually add gentle preachment about the dignity of man. But news would be any nation where tipping was against the national law, big news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such big news...
...Chicago, Midwest Hotel Show officials confessed they had been unable to pick a suitable substitute name for hors d'oeumes from 988 words submitted in a contest, such as "cavanchocees," "exdiores." Proclaimed Hotelman William M. Dewey, appointing a new committee to continue the search for a synonym: "This is a very, very serious thing we are undertaking...
...Governor. Indignation which importation of a Philadelphia lawyer created among Manhattan burghers quickly changed to admiration, however, when Lawyer Hamilton's brilliant defense secured Printer Zenger's acquittal, established freedom of the U. S. Press. Also established was the folk-usage of "Philadelphia lawyer" as a synonym for shrewdness...
...Glyn was hot stuff; to his wife, she was a Creature who wrote Vile Books. The post-War world can hardly remember what all the shouting was about, can just barely recollect that Elinor Glyn once wrote a notorious bestseller, Three Weeks, was credited with inventing "It," an outmoded synonym for the equally outmoded expression "sex appeal.'' Last week Elinor Glyn refreshed the U. S.'s memory about who and what she was. Her autobiography proudly admitted that she had been a successful revivalist of Romance, was just as careful to show that she had always been...
Then there are such diversions as the crossword puzzle in the Traveler. The better ones will keep you going for two hours after dinner and what more could you ask. Charles Lamb's pen name was "Elia". The synonym for "Unctuous" is "oily". The word (in cross-word puzzles) for "inflexibility" is "rigid". God help you if they want the name of a town on the Isle of Wight...