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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: $8.20 Fast | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Apple pie was a favorite New England dinner dessert two hundred years ago. The antiquity or the apple pie tradition has been confirmed by the discovery of the only known volume of the so-called "buttery books," consisting of the records of the college butler, from 1722 to 1751, in the Harvard University archives in the College library. This unique collection of "buttery" accounts has been selected for possible display in connection with Harvard's Tercentenary celebration next September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 200 Year Old Accounts of Harvard Food Show Pie and Pigeons on Menu | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...Three girls left to go home after a day and a half in camp. The director said nothing-just let them go. That noon a delicious Sunday dinner was served, consisting of chicken and dumplings, potatoes, salad, hot rolls, green beans and ice cream and cake for dessert. About half an hour after dinner the three slipped back into the camp and came up to the director. 'Please, we want to come back. We think it's pretty swell here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: I Don't Know | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...group of six tutors from the Faculty will be appointed regular members of the non-resident center and will eat luncheon in the building. Service will be conducted in cafeteria style, the dishes being priced at not more than five or ten cents an item and including, sandwiches, fruit, dessert, and one hot plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUDLEY HALL OPENS AS NEW COMMUTER CENTER | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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