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...were considered. Reluctantly Lehman Hall representatives realized that their Make-the-Food-Palatable policy was not only no longer adequate but actually conflicted with the Make-the-Students-Healthy program. The French dictionary was consulted once more, but no new words were found that could describe the food. Consomme, bouillon, puree, mongol, gumbo and other mumbo jumbo had been exhausted in trying to label the soup. And hamburger, whether Parisienne or Brooklynese, they had to admit was simply hamburger. With one final heroic effort, "Okra" was tacked onto the chicken gumbo in the last Sunday dinner, and than the dining...
...view a top-notch art exhibit-78 paintings by Georges Rouault-and the Institute's new home at No. 210 Beacon St. The guests, queued up in the street and taxing the energies of the ushers (Harvard footballers), packed three floors of the building, sipped hot bouillon and champagne punch, saw more of each other than of the pictures...
...heavily, remove his battered gray Homberg. . . He would then launch an impassioned tirade against Vollard or less gens de commerce." Contrast this with a newspaper account of the exhibition and opening. "Pots of yellow and white chrysanthemum lent a festive note, and the guests were served punch and hot bouillon with lrtiny sandwiches. . . Mrs. Wore her coronation gown of blue and silver brocade with bands of rhinestones, and was trying to discern which was the woman and which the hat in the painting entitled. "Woman With a Hat." (And Rouault, I say, is an artist of genius...
Harlowmen readily admitted they drank bouillon between halves of the games and tea after games, but were evasive when asked whether foam headed their favorite after hours beverage...
Issues. Only two real problems faced every Frenchman last week: 1) How to keep out of war; 2) What to do about the franc. About these two great issues most candidates were carefully vague. Bushy-lipped Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon, famed for his longtime insistence that the Treaty of Versailles was "not harsh enough," opened his campaign with the snort against such pussyfooting...