Nadia, one of my Belarusians, came through from the supper room and sullenly collected some glasses.
The supper room is tiny: stretch out your arms and you can almost touch both walls.
The midnight buffet got messy, with The Washington Evening Star reporting, "The floor of the supper room was soon sticky, pasty and oily with wasted confections, mashed cake and debris of fowl and meat".
While Darnley was present, the 4th Earl of Morton, Lord Ruthven, and other armed men dragged Riccio from Mary in her supper room in Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, and stabbed him to death.
Other song and supper rooms included the Coal Hole in The Strand, the Cyder Cellars in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden and the Mogul Saloon in Drury Lane.
His portrait, hung perhaps as a form of restitution, peers out from the supper-room wall.
And then those two young men got up, and asked us if we had ever heard Herr Slossenn Boschen (who had just arrived, and was then down in the supper-room) sing his great German comic song.
We glanced at the orchestra and supper-room as we hurried past we just recognised them, and that was all.
When Max, a boy dressed in a white wolf suit, is sent to bed without supper, his room becomes a forest, an ocean swells outside his window, and a boat takes him to a land where the Wild Things are — lumpish creatures who roll their eyes and gnash their teeth, and were based on Sendak's own relatives in Brooklyn.
When Max, a boy dressed in a white wolf suit, is sent to bed without supper, his room becomes a forest, an ocean swells outside his window, and a boat takes him to a land where the Wild Things are—lumpish creatures who roll their eyes and gnash their teeth, and were based on Sendak's own relatives in Brooklyn.
Doctors recommend early hours, light suppers, cool room temperatures, and complete darkness, yet many people feel sleepy late at night, after a heavy meal, in a warm room, or with a reassuring night light.
