Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kastner. It made one meal. Then Scalise found mushrooms and boiled them. Custer was sure they were poisonous, but Scalise dropped a silver coin into the brew and when it stayed shiny, instead of turning black, Custer was satisfied. Scalise shot a porcupine. Says Custer: "It was a lovely dish-we had it for days...
...this is told in a graceful, leisurely prose which gives Bridie Steen an oldfashioned, 19th Century quality found in few recent novels. But even on so quaint a dish, novelists today would not dare to serve up so cloying a mixture of Irish whimsy, gooey romance and tear-jerking melodrama...
Rita Hayworth, who only a fortnight ago had been chosen Embroidery Queen of 1948 by the Embroidery Merchants Association, was voted Dish of the Year by the waiters at the Concord Hotel of Kiamesha Lake...
...After a while the Sicilian went outside and lurked in the narrow, cobblestoned Via della Missione. Shortly before noon, he saw his prey coming out- Togliatti and Leonilda Iotti, full-bosomed, warm-eyed secretary to the Red parliamentary bloc. Togliatti & friend were bound for a gelateria and a cooling dish of ice cream. They paid no heed to the young man in the ill-fitting blue suit...
Musically, she admits that Bartók, Schönberg and the atonalists are not her dish, although she has always been willing to help pay the grocery bills. Some of her friends claim that at concerts of jangling modern music, she turns off her hearing aid when the going gets too tough...