Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrating began in Philadelphia. "It's wonderful," cried the banquet guests, and plunged into fried chicken, roast beef, short ribs, fish, seven vegetables, five kinds of bread, ice cream in three flavors, and two cakes. Edna, half a foot taller than the groom, sat quietly at the head table with two red roses in her hair. The happy couple moved on to Newark for another spell of rejoicing. Edna wore artificial gardenias. Over the banquet board glowed a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table...
After 22 days they got their first bath, and, as a special treat, sardines, black bread, sausage and the inevitable vodka. "The first toast," said Cobin, "was for friendship. The second was for victory. I've forgotten what the third one was for, because I was halfway through drinking it when I woke up the next morning back in my original improvised cell." Last week they were released after signing statements that they were not spies and had not been mistreated. Their Russian "opposite numbers" had been released July...
Food is scare here--searcer than during the war. July 21 saw the inauguration of bread rationing in England for the first time in history. This measure was declared necessary if England was to help food starving Europe, and, at the same time, insure a minimum supply of bread at home. Unfortunately, bread rationing hits the lower classes harder than the upper, for sandwiches comprise a, large part of the ordinary worker's lunch. Considerable opposition to bread rationing developed, but Parliament supported the Government on this issue, and rationing will continue until the shortage is alleviated...
...found the prices comparatively low, the fun high. They crowded into the famed Au Lutin Qui Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
Peter: "We love sweets like babies, we don't love no lumps of cheese, and tough bread, no we just like to eat soft stuff, soft bread, soft ice cream, soft chocolate, soft mush, soft potatoes, soft jam, and peanut butter, we don't except at a little meat we don't really chew. . . . Soft eats make soft...