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...Brookdale one can buy 1? and 5? meals (soup, bread, beans, vegetable, dessert, coffee). A pastel booklet explains: "This service is not a charity but a business transaction which Clinton's regards as its special privilege." It is a business transaction, because Clinton has made money...
...slice of dry bread; luncheon would be weeds from the garden, cooked in a few drops of oil, if one were lucky enough to get oil, and another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert a fig or a couple of olives. Dogs, cats, even rats are the only meats to be found; three pounds of donkey meat, which tastes like kitchen soap, costs about...
Undergraduates, as occasional guests, are agreeably surprised and satisfied by the food. The members receive for lunch, which costs them 35 cents, meat, three vegetables, unlimited bread and butter, coffee and milk, and dessert. At dinner, for which the members pay 50 cents, soup and salad are added. Featuring the meals is the milk, which comes from Government Professor Carl J. Friedrich's dairy...
...Roxbury Latin has asked parents of its day boys to restrict them to one helping of dessert and drive them only part way to school, so that they may "get the benefit of the mild exercise in climbing the hill...
Wartime living had hit the White House in many other ways. Citizen Roosevelt had to go easy on sugar. The White House no longer bought it in 100-lb. bags. Sugary desserts had given way to fresh fruits. Except at parties-now small and infrequent-the rule was: no dessert at all if a salad was on the table...