A posse surrounded them while they were lunching in the woods. When the raiders struck, Bethell was lunching and arrived on the scene in civilian attire. Because of the Great Depression, once-rich investors are "Lunching at the Automat". VF writers Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Benchley, and Dorothy Parker began lunching at the Algonquin. Spettigue arrives, angered that Kitty and Amy are lunching with the boys without his permission. In April 1989 he visited London, lunching with Elizabeth II. He returns home, furious, to find them lunching at his home.