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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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STEAM-TABLE FOOD, COMB-AND-NAIL-FILE and others ...

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00could someone help me with these on capital letters?:02br
00 'At intervals there are places of rest and recreation, food, postcards, STEAM-TABLE FOOD, ... but in these DINING PALACES were vending machines where various coins could deliver COMB-AND-NAIL-FILE SETS, MILD PHYSICS. (...) The restaurant accommodations, great SCALLOPS of counters with simulated leather stools, are as spotless as AND NOT UNLIKE the lavatories.'02br
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0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00'At intervals there are places of rest and recreation, food, postcards,02font 02br 02br 01font 00 STEAM-TABLE FOOD,02font 00 A table that uses steam, I think, to keep food hot02br 02br 01font 00 ... but in these DINING PALACES 02font 00Fancy restaurants (possibly said sarcastically here)02br 02br 01font 00were vending machines where various coins could deliver COMB-AND-NAIL-FILE SETS, 02font 00A comb and a nail-file, packaged for sale together02br 02br 01font 00MILD PHYSICS. ' 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Best wishes, Clive02br 02font 0-

— Clive

  • 0Hi,02br 02br 01font 00'At intervals there are places of rest and recreation, food, postcards,02font 02br 02br 01font 00 STEAM-TABLE FOOD,02font 00 A table that uses steam, I think, to keep food hot02br 02br 01font 00 ...
  • but in these DINING PALACES 02font 00Fancy restaurants (possibly said sarcastically here)02br 02br 01font 00were vending machines where various coins could deliver COMB-AND-NAIL-FILE SETS, 02font 00A comb and a nail-file, packaged for sale together02br 02br 01font 00MILD PHYSICS.
  • ' 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Best wishes, Clive02br 02font 0-
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0Hi,02br
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01font00 STEAM-TABLE FOOD,02font00 A table that uses steam, I think, to keep food hot02br
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01font00 ... but in these DINI
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0 As above, but with this exception.02br
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00 great scallops of counters : counters in the form of big scallop (sea-shell) shapes (as viewed from above), i.e., not a straight counter where people sit side-by-side in a single row, but a counter that bows out and in, perhaps more than once along its length. so that people sit side-by-side in a row that curves in and ou
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