Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poduyevo, jobless Milovan Savovich, 30, who recently ate two Belgrade newspapers on a 20? bet, spied a dead, unskinned hare, wagered its peasant owner 60? he could eat all but the bones. He won. Asked what he ate for dessert, Savovich quickly snatched a fez from an astonished Moslem onlooker, swallowed it in pieces. Boasted he: "This is nothing. For 100 dinars ($2) I can eat a whole sheep skin...
Another money-raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...
Class over and lunch with friend in Lowell House, cigarette before and after dessert and during coffee. Too many cigarettes, have to get back to pack-a-day. Tutor at two, thesis subject not yet selected, think it will be Fenimore Cooper, haven't got it exactly. Assignment for next week Miracle Plays. Should have done them sophomore year. The Vagabond has a field of concentration but he consistently ignores...
According to Minnesota's Governor Petersen, the President once addressed his opponent by saying, "Now, Alf Landon. if you take my place. . . ." It was also reported that the President had given' up trying to eat his hard-frozen dessert of ice cream ball & shredded cocoanut after it had repeatedly skidded out from under his spoon...
...that of a 9-year-old. She is learning French so that next year she can make the foreign versions of her pictures. For lunch she has beef or chicken, vegetables, preceded by soup and followed by ice cream or canned pears, her favorite dessert. At 5:30 o'clock her day's work is over. She goes home, plays with her father, rehearses the next day's assignment and retires...