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...Germany, Herr Ebert had to steer a difficult course. In the first place, there were no precedents upon which to fall back; he had to create them; and, in a country which for centuries had reveled in kingly glory, the lack was unusually difficult. It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump." A thousand jokes at his expense were born. Some said that Frau Ebert would sweep the Presidential Palace herself and that he would polish his own doorknobs. All these...
...fourth of a series of lunches for theatrical stars. When the stage manager, by announcing the second act, interrupted the story, the comedian became quite sad faced. "In 1922" said Eddie Cantor, "the night before the Yale game, when the Harvard team was waiting anxiously in New Haven, I ate supper with them and tried to entertain them. They were amused and I was pleased. I told them that if they beat Yale they might have every box in the house. After they won they came down to New York. George Owen and the whole team ran down the aisles...
...tete-a-tete ate...
...Governing Board has taken this action in order to take care of some of those men who formerly ate regularly at Memorial Hall, which was closed on January 10 for lack of patronage. The Governing Board felt that it could make the Union of greater service to the University in this...
...once sat in the Ivy Restaurant in London. One was a young composer who, after a long, long pull, was on the topside of his hour; the other was Thomas Burke, onetime Hardcress Kid, now famed author of Limehouse Nights. While they ate, they telegraphed to each other in a code made up of the names of street corners, taverns, dives, the memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor...