Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literature and history and birds-on whatever comes to Sacheverell Sitwell's well-stocked mind, in this winter of the spirit, that summons up recollections of richer creative times. It is an intellectual banquet like one of those he describes at the court of Constantine, where the dessert was brought in three chariots and raised to the table by ropes which descended from a ceiling of golden foliage...
Last weekend, however, I stayed in Trumbull College, Yale, and ate several meals there. We enjoyed rare roast beef that was tender and tasty, milk in individual paper bottles, and choice of dessert, including crackers and fancy cheese. This, I learned, is the usual quality of the fare of Yale men who even see an occasional lamb chop. The amazing thing is they pay only $10 per week for this delicious repast...
Last Tuesday, I told my husband that my mother was observing meatless day. She was having macaroni & cheese, deviled eggs, baked potatoes, coffee and dessert...
...Manhattan, 494 rare items of old English silver from the estate of the late J. P. Morgan were auctioned off at record prices: $31,000 for twelve Elizabethan dessert plates, engraved with the Labors of Hercules...
Fast as a Race Horse. The flames struck hardest at Bar Harbor, Me. (pop. 4,300), summer playground of the rich and famous on mountainous, timbered Mt. Desert (pronounced dessert) Island. All one day and all through one night, a great fire eccentrically marched and countermarched around the outskirts of the town, while hundreds of soldiers and townspeople fought to control it. In the afternoon, when the shifting wind began to blow a gale from the northwest, the fire crowned into the tops of trees and leaped forward "as fast as a race horse could run," blasting through wooded estates...