Word: dish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...voyage Mr. King and Mr. Kellogg chummed over demitasses in one or two of the five Art Moderne bar rooms, dined in one another's suites, paced the broad sun deck, and appeared to share a taste for those thin little pancakes blazed with spirits in a chafing dish, which are so favorably known as crêpes Suzettes...
...respectful, imitative; flax raising has been raised from an experiment to a county industry. Were more farmers like Flax Grower Raskob, the U. S. Department of Agriculture would not need to keep repeating, stressing its points. Hundreds of keen chemists, bacteriologists, plant pathologists bend busily over microscope and petrie dish in the many mellow brick laboratory buildings of Washington. Eagerly they experiment with farm problems; clearly, carefully they describe new methods, send bulletins to farmers. Recent free advice: "Permanent pastures perpetuate parasites. Change your stock from one pasture to another, and change the kind of stock on the same pasture...
...hour and was a bit dismayed to find the only free hour that could be found was from 5:30 to 6:30 a. in., but kept to his bargain, and was amazed to have a breakfast set out before him consisting solely of a bounteous dish of ice cream. Feng had inquired what the American liked most to eat and then told his "number-one-boy" to provide it for his distinguished friend next morning. Said "number-one-boy" was reported to have spent most of the night with a staff of house servants in finding...
...discoverer of a new dish is worthier of esteem than the discoverer of a new star. -Brillat Savarin. To the triumphs of French cuisine was added officially, last week, a discovery called L'Intrasauce. The beaming discoverer, Monsieur le Docteur Gauducheau was clapped, cheered and feted, at Paris, by 150 gourmets banqueting under the auspices of La Societe d'Acclimatisation (French National Society of Acclimatization). This august body, unique, is devoted to popularizing in France new or outlandish products, processes, animals, or plants which seem to possess authentic merit. Last week the blushing and bowing discoverer of intrasauces...
...only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over petrie dish, Dr. Francis and six of his assistants were infected. They recovered, having learned more about the strange malady. It is a slow fever with all the attendant aches, pains, chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with...