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...plans. Flower-growing was encouraged this spring, to have the city in full bloom. A committee of 1,000 "hosts and hostesses" has been organized, to be stationed at the hotels in relays. Details so small as extra caddies at the golf clubs and the time-saving elimination of soup from table d'hote bills-of-fare, were worked out.* A political spectacle, with red fire, torches, floats, old-time stump oratory, and the whole Rotary Club enacting scenes from the Lincoln era, was in readiness. But Chairman William E. Morton of the Entertainment Committee and his able...
...Serving soup delays the rest of the meal from five to eight minutes," reported efficient President C. M. Hayman of the Kansas City Restaurant Association...
...Cabinet), who whispered in his ear. At the conclusion of this dramatic whispering Expert Samuel reversed his decision of a moment before and consented audibly to a reduction of the tax on lighters. Thereby he gave the Laborites a prime chance to whoop, heckle and deride him as a soup-will, a ninny-pinny...
...citizen fall sick in the Balkans or in Turkey. Let him brood upon slimy gutters, promiscuously expectorating citizens, and the greasy scum which swims upon his especially ordered soup. Let him grow sicker. But finally and mercifully transport him to a clean bed and a cheerful room in the American Hospital at Constantinople. He will then realize the special and comforting importance of that institution. He will understand, why, last week, the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Joseph Clark Grew, took care to conduct through the Hospital and its adjoining School for Nurses an august guest, his cousin, John Pierpont...
Mathias Blau of Chicago persuaded his wife, Helen, to have all her teeth pulled. Then he refused to buy her false teeth because, he said, it was cheaper to feed her on soup than on solids. Mrs. Blau went to court, was awarded two sets of store teeth and at least a beefsteak a week. Judge Jonas told Mr. Blau that he had committed "the meanest trick" he had ever heard...