Word: tableclothes
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...order such a meal, a customer has to have more crust than a Bowery mission pie. But some of the owners and waiters have worked out a defensive "treatment" for such diners. As soon as they hear the odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room...
Through the dinner the Smith kids were speechless. Nannette, 11, had to stuff a napkin in her mouth to keep from giggling. Young Kent, 5, spilled his cider on the damask tablecloth, and Cheryl had a change of heart. "I wasn't going to eat," she said, "but I got hungry." After dinner King Paul made a quick tour of the farm with Smith. Then, with a home-cured ham tucked under his arm, the King waved goodbye and drove back to Chicago to tell the Queen all about...
...There were also three threatening messages to Loughnane, which encouraged him to leave town for a brief vacation.) Local officials were embarrassed. Omaha's mayor, Glenn Cunningham, took to the air himself to insist that "Omaha is so clean you could eat off it as you would a tablecloth." But though public protests continued, by last week the gambling joints were still going full blast...
...dark, bilious green, was indeed a dark azure blue. That was just the beginning. On Judas' blue tunic, ancient Arabic lettering appeared in gold; Christ's robe changed from a dirty lime color to vermilion, his mantle became bluer, its folds draped more gracefully. The dingy tablecloth lost its tattletale grey, and in the background, the blue waters of a cool lake took shape...
...globe-trotting standardbearer, Adlai Stevenson, arrived in Saigon for a six-day visit through Indo-China, including a three-hour luncheon conference with Vietnamese Chief of State Bao Dai. Later, at a luncheon in Phat Diem, south of Hanoi, Stevenson found a gambit for his humor in the tablecloth, decorated with an elephant. His host, Catholic Bishop Le Huu Tu, quickly explained: the elephant on the tablecloth was a native beast, no relation to the Republican species...