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...longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad ... In the period when beer came in kegs, the man of the house hauled it himself. Now that it comes in handy little cans, even a woman can lug a dozen from the delicatessen. The man who speeds by a woman, stopped by a flat tire, can't be accused of lack of chivalry. He knows that the way they make jacks these days, even a woman can change a tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Price Groggle? | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...Campus Delicatessen on Massachusetts Avenue was host to the irate eaters. George, the proprietor, said he enjoyed feeding the girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whitman Girls Desert Dining Hall in Protest of Chile, Prune Whip Meal | 3/23/1951 | See Source »

...fight between Cronin's and the Catholic Club over who will occupy the old Pediatric Center on Mount Auburn Street has ended with Cahaly's Delicatessen and a florist taking over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cronin Expansion On Mt. Auburn St. To Be Abandoned | 12/16/1950 | See Source »

Food for Thought. In Manhattan, Counterman Max Levine told customers who ordered Russian dressing: "In this delicatessen, Russian dressing is now MacArthur sauce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...idea of a good lunch is not a Salade Alfred nibbled to the music of violins in the velvety Carlton Hotel, but a rosy apple gnawed at his desk, or a delicatessen lunch thrown together in his office with fruits, home-canned goods and cheeses sent to him by friendly farmers. His idea of relaxation is reading law books. A Mormon,* he never smokes, sips a Scotch highball only when it seems to be the necessary social gesture. Yet, while maintaining the appearance of the man who gets lost behind a potted fern at cocktail parties, the Secretary of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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