Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have shrimp cocktail first, Mary; be very careful how you carry the tray there. . . . About the dessert-this Tarrytown Special-a fruit salad of bananas, berries and pears with caramel sauce on it. That's about all, but don't hurry though. That's the dollar dinner I want served next week when I get off the train from Washington." Dr. Smith tries to identify speakers' places of origin by their pronunciation. and, what is more, does so about 70% of the time...
...breakfast consists of about two pounds of fruit, and caffe e latte (half-&-half coffee and milk); for lunch spaghetti, rarely meat and seldom wine, a huge salad, fruit for dessert; for dinner about the same things as for lunch, and fruit and milk before retiring...
...carrying a four-month-old infant straight through to his fifth year. Packaged in four-and-a-half-ounce tins retailing at about 8? apiece, the cans of strained or chopped liver, lamb and beef complete with vegetables and vitamins left busy mothers little to do but make up dessert for Junior...
...well-tailored knee, resigned. Charlie's hour was cut to 30 minutes, shorn of his sarongster stooge Dorothy Lamour. The advertising business buzzed with Standard Brands' changes: J. Walter Thompson kept coffee, tea and yeast; Royal Baking Powder went to McCann-Erickson; Royal Gelatin Dessert to Sherman K. Ellis. The advertising budget, about $5,500,000 in 1939, came in for some pruning...
...superstition which prevents many people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat and ice cream for our luncheons...