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Free Lunch is a middle-grade memoir by Rex Ogle, published September 10, 2019, by Norton Young Readers. The book follows Ogle's middle school experience of being "a poor kid in a wealthy school district."
First edition (publ. Tor Books) Cover art by Stephan Martiniere. The Free Lunch is a 2001 novel by Spider Robinson.The title is a reference to the adage "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch", popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1966 novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.
The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to ...
The colors of Easter are pastels that bring to mind the sights and smells of spring,” says Diana Hathaway, an interior designer and color expert. “Easter pastel colors have a charming, candy ...
Pasteles (Spanish pronunciation:; singular pastel), also pastelles in the English-speaking Caribbean, are a traditional dish in several Latin American and Caribbean countries. In Puerto Rico , the Dominican Republic , Venezuela , Panama , Trinidad and Tobago , and the Caribbean coast of Colombia , the dish looks like a tamal .
The "free lunch" in the saying refers to the formerly common practice in American bars of offering a "free lunch" in order to entice drinking customers. The phrase and the acronym are central to Robert A. Heinlein 's 1966 science-fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress , which helped popularize it.
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Bottoms Up is a 1934 American pre-Code musical comedy film made by Fox Film Corporation, and was directed by David Butler, who cowrote original story and screenplay with producer Buddy G. DeSylva and co-star Sid Silvers. The picture stars Spencer Tracy, Pat Paterson, John Boles and Herbert Mundin, and features Thelma Todd in a supporting role.