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Bailey Aldrich Thomas - Ponkapog Papers
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... Italian and streets in which the alien pedestrian had better not linger after nightfall. The chief industry of these exotic communities seems to be spaghetti and stilettos. What with our Little Italys and Chinatowns, and the like, an American need not cross the ocean in order to visit foreign lands ...
Dunbar Alice - The Goodness Of St. Rocque And Other Stories
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... to their servants for Christmas presents. As for Tony, when she was slow in opening his oysters or in cooking his red beans and spaghetti, he roared at her, and prefixed picturesque adjectives to her lace, which made her hide it under her apron with a fearsome look in her ...
Gordon Irwin L. - Who Was Who: 5000 Bc - 1914  
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... country, ran second to V. E. in the number of statues erected to his appearance, and for three years held the championship for eating spaghetti. GARRICK, an old English matinee idol. GATLING, R. J., he was considered a big gun. GAUL, Dying, a brave soldier who posed for his statue ...
Henry O. - The Voice Of The City
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... his house-front black and forbidding; he gives you a pretty bad dinner; he locks his door at the dining hour; but he knows spaghetti as the boarding-house knows cold veal; and -- he has deposited many dollars in a certain Banco di -- something with many gold vowels in the ...
Henry O. - The Voice Of The City
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... snowy shirt-sleeves rolled high above his Jeffriesonian elbows, a white yachting cap perched upon his jetty curls. "''Tonio! ''Tonio!" shouted many, and "The spaghetti! The spaghetti!" shouted the rest. Never at ''Tonio''s did a waiter dare to serve a dish of spaghetti until ''Tonio came to test it, to ...
Henry O. - The Voice Of The City
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... sleeves rolled high above his Jeffriesonian elbows, a white yachting cap perched upon his jetty curls. "''Tonio! ''Tonio!" shouted many, and "The spaghetti! The spaghetti!" shouted the rest. Never at ''Tonio''s did a waiter dare to serve a dish of spaghetti until ''Tonio came to test it, to prove the ...
Henry O. - The Voice Of The City
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... ''Tonio! ''Tonio!" shouted many, and "The spaghetti! The spaghetti!" shouted the rest. Never at ''Tonio''s did a waiter dare to serve a dish of spaghetti until ''Tonio came to test it, to prove the sauce and add the needful dash of seasoning that gave it perfection. From table to table ...
Henry O. - The Voice Of The City
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... further appreciation of his handiwork? Katy did not know that the proudest consummation of a New Yorker''s ambition is to shake bands with a spaghetti chef or to receive a nod from a Broadway head-waiter. At last the company thinned, leaving'' but a few couples and quartettes lingering over ...
Knauss Greg - The Explosion That Killed Ben Lippencott
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... me. "Yeah, yeah," I said. "Gimme a sec." Apparently, my delayed traumatic reaction was a pushy one. I moved the pot I was boiling spaghetti in to a cool burner and sat down at the table with a pencil and a piece of paper. "Listen to what I say," said ...
Lewis Sinclair - Main Street
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... the fact is that at the motion-pictures she discovered herself laughing as heartily as Kennicott at the humor of an actor who stuffed spaghetti down a woman's evening frock. For a second she loathed her laughter; mourned for the day when on her hill by the Mississippi she had ...
Lewis Sinclair - Main Street
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... like to have me go with you to Paris and study art, maybe, and wear velveteen pants and a woman's bonnet, and live on spaghetti?" "No, I think we can save you that trouble. You quite understand. I am going--I really am--and alone! I've got to find out ...

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