Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preliminary check on the amount of waste involved in dining hall food which is not eaten, the Committee held a check on February 21 to determine the amount of bread and butter thrown away after being returned to the kitchen. At lunch that day in Leverett House observers found that 62 rolls were thrown away, two leaves of bread, and 50 cakes of butter. The food thrown away was returned to the kitchen completely untouched; the butter was still in bowis with ice and water, and the bread was still on the bread plates...
...five more meals in Leverett House, three in Adams, two in Eliot, two in Lowell, three in Dunster, and one in Winthrop. In Adams and Eliot it found the same kind of waste as in Leverett. For example, in Adams House at dinner on February 27, 230 slices of bread were thrown out; at Eliot House that same night 91 slices of bread were thrown away. But in the other Houses the Committee found no waste, but ample indication that waste was general; obviously the order had come down from above to indulge in some window-dressing for the Committee...
After checks in all the House dining halls, the Committee found repeated instances of butter and bread, which had not been touched, being thrown away wholesale. The report cites one estimate that "10 to 15% of all the meat cut in the House kitchens is wasted through incompetent butchering...
Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...
...Mickey Rooney seem a brat to his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom in 1939, he grossed a box-office total of $30,000,000. They saw Mickey Rooney in bread & butter terms, and as such he was the biggest actor of the year in pictures...