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...Victoria. "Old Lady Ely used to say that Lord Fife was one of the few men who could with impunity quiz, as it were, the Queen- to use a vulgarism, get the best of her. On one occasion, at dinner at Windsor, when Lord Fife was mopping up his soup with much noise, he suddenly paused, looked up and said in his very broad Scotch: 'Yer Majesty will be pleased to hear that I hae given up brandy and sodas!' 'I'm glad to hear it, Lord Fife,' said the Queen...
Near St. Mark's is Luchow's restaurant. Last week it was the scene of a great dinner-mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream. Among the diners, besides Bishop Manning and several judges, were "The Millionaire Kid," "Sam the Scratcher," "Hotel Bill," "Little Gyp" and their friends. They are members of the Marshall Stillman Movement-all of them bad men and bad women who, in spite of having gone to prison, have decided to go straight. They presented the Bishop with $100, every dime of which had been collected from people whose Vater-land had once been...
...women, mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream...
...your editorial this morning (June 11) entitled "Soup, Fish and Efficiency," you presented a vivid picture of the horrors of Memorial Dining Hall and Cafeteria. I have eaten at the Cafeteria for two years and find your picture overdrawn. I do not think the food is of "secondary quality," otherwise I should not have stayed so long. The cooking I do not consider "poor and tasteless." If this has driven anyone away, on the other hand I know of an individual who left because the food was flavored too strongly. The Cafeteria cannot hope to satisfy all extremes of taste...
Tonsorial scenery . . . generous whiskers . . . chin shrubbery . . . soup moustache...