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Updated: May 19, 2025
He was borne along on a roaring spate of conferences, telephone calls, appointments, Rotarian lunches, Chamber of Commerce dinners, picnics to talk tariff, house-parties to discuss demurrage, tennis tournaments to settle the sales-tax, golf foursomes to regulate price-maintenance.
The smell of the sherry fine old brown stuff, which the clerks were permitted to taste now and then, on such occasions as the partners' birthdays filled the room. "Neale," said Gabriel, "have you been out to lunch? No? Take a glass of wine and eat a biscuit we shall all have to put off our lunches for an hour or so." Neale obeyed more because he was under order than because he was hungry.
Her signature to legal documents had made her a frequent visitor to the bank, and she often took lunch with him. Alone with her at these impromptu lunches, without the restraint of Gordon's presence, he had revealed to her a new phase of his character which had interested her still more deeply.
Vienna gazed truculently on Smyrna for a time, but Smyrna, obeying their foreman's adjurations, mellowed into amiable grins and went on with their lunches. "Where's that Spitz poodle with the blue ribbon?" inquired the Cap'n of Hiram, having reference to the brisk little man and his side whiskers.
In each there had been Americans, and hotels, cafés and dances, motor trips and lunches, gossip and scandal without end. But she told of it all in a humorous way that made it quite amusing. And it was a good deal the same with the two women, Amy's friends, whom Fanny brought to tea a bit later.
They believed enormously in the virtue of spreading the blessings of Pemberton's patent medicines; they worshiped the house policy. Once a month they met at what they called "punch lunches," and listened to electrifying addresses by Mr.
One imagines a heroine coming here, and having the most magnificent kind of social career lawn-parties, lunches, teas, dinners, picnics, hops and going back to De Witt Point with a dozen offers of marriage. That's the kind of work the imagination does.
"Stuck up things!" murmured Alice Jallow, toward the close of the noon recess, when the four chums had kept to one corner of the school court, eating their lunches, and never joining in the activities, or talk, of the other pupils. "I wonder what they can be planning?" murmured Alice. "If they're getting up a new society, we'll do the same, and we won't ask them to join."
All employees must enter and leave the store by employees' entrance, leaving all wraps, hats, rubbers, lunches, etc., in the cloakroom, which is conveniently arranged for this purpose. Upon entering the store in the morning and upon leaving and returning at noon, and on going out at night, each individual records his or her time.
"It's a trait of our people, like well, like their distrust of authority and their fear of law. You see, persecution made them cunning, but underneath they are fierce and revengeful and lawless. I inherited all these traits but that has nothing to do with the story. Father worked in the Bessemer plant, like any hunkie, and the women used to bring the men's lunches to them.
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