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Volunteers will wait on the tables and prepare the orders. The specialty of the house is cafe flambe--coffee with flaming vanilla extract...
...Mars and buy some beds and equipment. Let's leave Saturn alone for awhile and train more nurses. Let's have more doctors, more schools, more colleges, more teachers. Why not take care of us here on earth first and then investigate whether the Martians like vanilla or chocolate ice cream...
...much has changed. True, the fashion is Bermuda shorts instead of bloomers and Tijuana Taxi instead of Yes, We Have No Bananas. But otherwise the concerts are like snapshots out of an old family album, with folding chairs and blankets on the grass; piccolos and glockenspiels, vanilla uniforms with sundae braid and dangling whistles; waltzes and marches and "special symphonic versions" of Lady of Spain and Ethelbert Nevin's Rosary...
Ostrich Eggs & Vanilla Beans. When Founder Samuel Stillman Pierce opened his first store in Boston in 1831, he vowed: "I may not make money, but I shall make a reputation." He made both, partly by provisioning Yankee clipper ships for ocean voyages and partly by coddling his celebrity customers (among them: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster). In later years, the company hired horse-drawn sleighs to deliver groceries when snowstorms closed roads to auto traffic, and maintained a well-drilled corps of salesmen who would phone housewives at appointed hours. They not only suggested menus but answered such arcane questions...
...Johnson. Afghanistan, after all, shares borders with Russia as well as Red China-not to mention Pakistan, India and Iran. There were bands, honor guards, a 19-gun salute, and a sit-down lunch for 140 in the Yellow Oval Room with green turtle soup, Florida red snapper and vanilla Jalalabad, named for the mountain resort that is the Afghans' Aspen. Afterward, during a half-hour talk with the President, Maiwandwal promised that Afghanistan would continue to press for democratic reforms. Johnson, in turn, agreed in principle to make some $40 million in economic aid available to the Kabul...