quick-lunch

• “There were a quick-lunch shack and two barnlike stages and everywhere about the lot, groups of waiting, hopeful, painted faces.”

  Tender is the Night

• “For many of us, food is merely something that we eat, sometimes at leisure but often on a quick-lunch basis.”

  Why Not?

• “Full of enthusiasm over the coming adventure and his part in it, Archie hurried out to a quick-lunch counter and bought himself a light meal, for he feared that he would have to remain at Coney Island through the evening.”

  The Adventures of a Boy Reporter

• “Whereupon, to his vast and historic surprise, a brace of she-bears came out of a wood and used him for a quick-lunch bar, along with forty-one of his playmates.”

  The Saint in Action

• “The birds should dine that evening on the quick-lunch principle.”

  The Intrusion of Jimmy

• “Such marionette tragedies mingled ever with the grander passion of seeing life as a ruined thing; her birthright to aspiring cleanness sold for a mess of quick-lunch pottage.”

  The Job An American Novel

• “But the ruck -- the rank and file -- had to take such marital happiness as came their way on the quick-lunch system.”

  Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters

• “He slapped the china and silver down with the familiar bravura of a quick-lunch waiter, and her heart sank, remembering that she had once admired his skill.”

  We Can't Have Everything

• “He spoke of a boarding-house kept by a certain Mrs. Bowse, and a presidential campaign, and the election of a mayor, and a quick-lunch counter, and when President Garfield had been assassinated, and a department store, and the electric lights, and the way he had of making a sort of picture of every thing was really instructive and, well, fascinating.”

  T. Tembarom

• “Alabama has beaten her public bars into soda fountains and quick-lunch rooms, and though her club bars still look like real ones, the drinks served are so soft that no splash occurs when reminiscent tears drop into them.”

  American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home'

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