Eating early on a hot day gives you more time to digest your food before retiring.
4 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:12.502 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Don't forget you have to wash your hair.
- No, I won't. Rose is bringing the shampoo from downtown.
- Would it start a minor revolution in this household if dinner was an hour early tonight?
- Mr. Smith hates to eat early on a hot day.
- Eating early on a hot day gives you more time to digest your food before retiring.
- Besides, I'm due at my sister's house at 7 o'clock on a family matter.
- Something wrong with your sisters?
- Having trouble with her husband. Him being a man.
- Well, early dinner's all right with me, but you'll have to explain it to Mr. Smith.
- Oh, he won't mind, seeing as how tonight's corned-beef night.
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