Word: dish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless 55 female members of the Democratic National Committee headed by Miss Elizabeth Marbury will compile a Convention Cook Book. Each of the women will contribute a recipe of a dish typical of her state or territory. The book will be taken into the Convention at Madison Square Garden "as an effective answer to the question so often raised by men, whether women can be both politicians and housewives...
...would seem that the real occasion for the protests of the New South Wales players was their outraged conviction that the Australian Club doubted their English-ness. In a land many thousands of miles from Lombard Street the title of Englishman is worth claiming; if a dish of afternoon tea will prove it, by all means let it be served. Another such "fnux pas" by the cricket club manager candidate will no doubt be the occasion for-cutting...
...proof, not much after 1636 one finds that "Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food and cookery," and in 1791 it is reported by another chronicler that...
...Pope lunches. He delights in rice, done Milano style. But he is not an epicure; has never been known to refuse any dish placed before him. A meat, a few vegetables, some fruit...
News was received that Prince John II of Liechtenstein recently celebrated the 65th year of his reign. According to reports from Austrian sources, all school children in the Principality received a ration of white bread and a dish of sausages to celebrate the occasion. The Prince, who spends a good deal of his time in Vienna, made a practical contribution of 10,000 Swiss francs ($1,728) toward the building of a fifth bridge over the Rhine, which divides Liechtenstein from Switzerland. Prince John, aged 83, ascended the throne of Liechtenstein on Nov. 12, 1858, when...