Word: whetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumberable other delicacies to whet the epicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere. Opens at 9.30 P M.--stays so till all hours. No drinks, but if you bring your ingredients Jack will accomodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...
...this year, a 50% gain over two years ago. Last week Charles McCrea. Provincial Minister of Mines, said that this year's gold mining activities in Ontario alone will split $45,000,000 between wages, supplies, taxes & dividends. Gold shares have soared in Toronto and Montreal. A further whet to speculation was news last week that famed Manhattan Speculator George Forsythe Breen and Sisto & Co. planned to invest $250,000 new capital in Barry-Hollinger Mines, a hitherto only fairly successful company whose shares sold at 3½? last month; 9? last week...
...whet U. S. appetites for the statue a fore arm was sent to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition in 1876, transferred to Madison Square, New York, for the next ten years, was finally joined by the rest of the statue in 1886 when the whole was solemnly unveiled on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor...
...Hostesses serve cocktails, not only to whet the appetites of their guests, but to insure the dinner being lively. But people are forgetting the biggest thrill in life. If we want to be lifted out of the commonplace and monotonous we should help to put over the Kingdom of God. He holds a monopoly on thrills for us, in working out His eternal concepts...
...free from cut-&-dried restrictions. They will pursue required college courses (the new divisions will make no change in these). After freshman year (which will have as heretofore its own dean and dormitories), the student will meet his new master and fellows. Theory is that contact with them will whet his appetite for learning, and under their guidance, if he wishes, he will do extra, intensive work. "What we are planning for the Yale of the future," said Professor French, "is not a system, but a life." Of the men who will be leaders in this life, he says...