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...board when the banquet began were the District Magistrate of Megntzu, the Commander of the Megntzu garrison, the President of the Agricultural Society, the Director of the Megntzu Wireless Station, all the municipal department heads and business leaders of the community. Politely they praised the swallow's nest soup, deviled shark's fin, boneless lacquered duck, and vintage eggs. Deeply they drank of the bandit's excellent rice wine...
...season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
...reason to the many already given--at one club at Harvard with an unsubsidized dining-room and an expected minimum of twenty persons at a meal, meals are being offered singly, at 11 for $6.00, and at 6 for $3.75 lunches and dinners alone, with second helpings, soup and salad, and all very good because of the free competition of other eating places...
...health. Last week when his battle for life was hardest, Clémenceau, the confirmed atheist, had called for Sister Theoneste again. She it was who despite his grumbling protests gave him hypodermic injections of camphorated oil to relieve the congestion in his chest, prepared his frugal diet (vegetable soup, mashed potatoes, stewed fruit) and tried ineffectually to keep him from writing...
...Berlin, one Max Hinel, 22, n 5-pound cobbler, ate 75 eggs in ten and a half minutes, thus beating the former world's record by one egg, 90 seconds. Champion Hinel's training meals Consisted of two tureens of potato soup, 40 eggs or four pounds of preserved meat with bread...