Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life at Colombey is the simple one of a dedicated, single-minded man. He gets up at 8, breakfasts on café au lait, brown bread, a little butter and jam, then tackles his mail and newspapers. The food served at lunch is simple and the wine is an inexpensive vin rosé served from a carafe, but the meal is a leisurely one, lasting one and a half or two hours, and topped off by brandy, cigars and conversation. Malraux or Soustelle is often there, and nearly every top Government man from Ramadier down has been to Colombey...
...favor serving no bread or rolls one meal per day; 2) Do you favor serving pie one day fewer each week; 3) Do you favor serving no wheat cereals one day per week...
Requiring the student to answer yes or no, the poll asked (1) are you willing to use no meat on Tuesdays; (2) no eggs on Thursdays; (3) is the student willing to forego bread, toast, or rolls one meal per day; (4) eat pie one fewer day each week; (5) give up wheat cereals one day in seven; and (6) take only what he will eat. The final question asks students whether they approve dining halls serving "food of the week," the victuals most plentiful at a certain time...
Food conservation will also occupy an important spot on the Council agenda, since the Council food committee has laid plans to poll undergraduates tomorrow on whether they would voluntarily give up bread, pies, and other foods at specified meals during the week...
...comes The Times of Melville and Whitman, a rich portrait of U.S. literary life shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson's "imagination lingered over...