Word: dish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post: "A characteristic dish of Blasco Ibanez's extra-special chili con carne...
...Latin races like their food and their politics highly seasoned. Just at present Secretary of State Hughes and President Coolidge are tasting the Cuban dish and finding it a bit too " hot." There are two matters in question. One is the recent lottery bill (TIME, Aug. 13); the other is the Tarafa railroad bill...
...President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...
...wish we had a prospect of witnessing a meeting between that estimable lady and the Prosperous Gentleman on Plympton Street, for we feel sure that their reminiscences over a dish of tea or even an empty punch bowl would be fascinating history. There would be many things to recall of the old days in which there were of course, giants: ambrosial make-up meetings whence numbers issued more or less by mistake; the horrors of proof reading at dawn; the bitterness of controversy and mutual criticism; the tense excitement each has experienced in the turmoil of competition with more than...
...services in their synagogues (orthodox) or temples (reformed). After the services family groups celebrated the Passover feast ("seyder"), each in its own home. After an ordinary supper, a ritual is carried out during which four small cups of sacramental wine are drunk by each member of the family. A dish in the center of the table contains a piece of lamb, and, in some families, horseradish. The lamb is not eaten, but is a survival of the ancient and abandoned custom of blood sacrifice as it was first practiced in Egypt. The horseradish signifies the bitter experiences of the Jews...