Word: queue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
Lampoon--Bow, Street; 1, Bis; 2, Wit; 3, Joe Kerr; 4, Queue; 5, Dunce; 6, Fiend; 7, Clink Kerr; Stroke, Quigley; Cox, C. Oliver Iselin '49. Average height: 4 ft. 9 in. (with cox, 4 ft. 9 in). Average weight: 212 (with...
...only contretemps came when the Auriols returned the Trumans' hospitality with a formal dinner and reception at the French Embassy. The 64 dinner guests had scarcely done with their sumptuous meal when hundreds of other guests, invited to the reception, started queueing up on the embassy grounds. Only a trickle of guests were admitted at a time, to avoid confusion at the cloakroom. At 11:30, an hour after the doors opened, the queue still-extended for a block. One impatient Senator was heard to mumble: "It is a strange way to wish us to vote the right...
...case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions in a placarded fleet of buses, military trucks and trains...
Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...