Word: delicatessen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...
With Trieste, the Danube, and a Sarajevo-like delicatessen shooting temporarily disposed of, attention can be riveted upon United Nations progress with the disarmament problem. Russia made an important concession last week in agreeing to international inspection of world disarmament, including the abolition of atomic weapons. But her insistence upon keeping the veto power in disarmament questions has drawn a storm of criticism not only to the Soviet proposal but to the motives behind it as well. Some of the criticisms are thoughtful; others contain an air of cynicism that add little to the discussion...
...when two swarthy thugs held up the New Yorker Delicatessen Store (one in a chain of 67) on 58th Street, in the genteel shadow of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, it was the hand of history itself which struck among the liverwursts...
Moscow's Gorky Street gastronome (luxury-priced delicatessen) laid in an extra 57 tons of groceries, 20 tons of candies, five tons of meat. Behind the counters stood additional clerks and cashiers. Outside, three abreast in the softly sifting snow, stood waiting customers in their thousands...
Chicago had arctic weather on Dec. 9, 1932; when big, red-faced Traffic Police man William D. Lundy went off duty in mid-afternoon it was 11° below zero in the drab Southwest Side. Shivering, he headed for Vera Walush's delicatessen, a cheap speakeasy, and stamped through into the dark kitchen in the rear...