Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Mary Welsh was laid up with grippe, spent only the following: breakfast of bread and hot water to mix with Nescafe - 70 francs plus 100 francs tip to waiter who was not supposed to bring anything to rooms. Lunch without wine -350 francs. Dinner with half-bottle of wine -500 francs. Firewood for room in the evening-150 francs plus 100 francs tip (no tip, no wood). Telephone calls, newspapers, aspirin and tips to maid who smoothed bed and boy who brought paper handkerchiefs - 350 francs. Total for the day -1620 francs...
Last week the Metropolitan's trustees thought they had a solution. With an eye to the "comfort [and] sanity" of visitors, the Museum announced a $3-million-plus postwar plan. Taking a tip from the Louvre, which has long been divided into ten sections, the Metropolitan will reshuffle and sort itself out into five separate museums, each with an entrance of its own, plainly marked for the visitor who wants to know exactly where he is going. Tentative titles for the five new entrances: the Museum of Ancient Art, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Picture Gallery, the Museum...
Oldendorf's heavyweights, the armored tip of the spear, were days ahead of the other groups. They included the "ghost ships," veteran battleships raised from the mud of Pearl Harbor, which had fought so well at Surigao. His jeep carriers opened an air umbrella as he bored past Mindoro into the South China...
...decisions, issued his orders. First Army reserves bore down from the north, compressed the salient's right flank, recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay. On the south, General Patton's armor blasted a corridor to Bastogne, pushed on to the north and then west to encircle the German tip south of Saint-Hubert. Patton also broadened his attacking front all the way east to Echternach...
...ordained Bishop of Haalogaland. High in the Arctic, at the northern tip of Norway, Bishop Berggrav's first diocese was a vast tract of scattered parishes, his parishioners rugged trappers, seamen and fishermen whose lives were an unceasing struggle for subsistence. Traveling among them, the Bishop learned to endure with the best their hardships and long loneliness in the Arctic night. Gay and friendly, an expert hunter and fisherman, he won and returned the love of his people. As his work in the state prison had given him compassion and insight, so his life in the north added toughness...