Word: dished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would hardly have been sufficient provocation. It was probably a bread-riot as much as a revolt against tyranny. Side-long glances may be expected from the management of our own Freshman Dining Halls. The Yale precedent is not reassuring. A plate of tepid soup, like a more famous dish of tea, contains the germs of revolution...
Ectoplasm has appeared before on the theatrical bill of fare, but the dish now being served at the Wilbur,--ectoplasm taken with a pinch of salt, stirred up with a dash of satire, and blending judiciously with melodrama,--will tempt the most play-weary palate...
...derisively he crows at the barnyard turkeys. How arrogantly he pecks at his beans and his cabbage. How sneeringly he looks upon the swine, how snubbingly upon the kine. But well should he be proud; it the recent Hotel Exposition he was elected the nation's most popular dish. Every day more diners choose him for their pieces de resistance than any other man, bird, or beast in the country. He is the chief mouth-waterer and gastrician of the land...
What is wrong with this picture? Here is a man seated at a dinner table between three ladies a butter plate and a dish of soup. He is in evening dress. In and around his buttonhole is a secondhand rose. More vegetables and even soup and fish are scattered about on the table and the guests. Both his hands are, strangely enough immersed part way in a finger bowl. Offhand there seems to be nothing wrong with the picture. But the faults are glaring to one who has studied a few rules of etiquette. Even those...
Fully as great in importance as his procuring the dish is his method of eating it. He takes fork with l., (l means left hand; r., right.) Changes same to r., tries to eat griddlecake with same, returns fork to l., whence to table and exhales. Picks up fork with l, and knife (by handle) with r., gets firm hold on both and approaches griddle cake. Griddle-cake slipping well on the mixture of caviar and heavy alights in neighbor's lap. (Now here is where his training is evident.) With a jovial laugh, Willie bursts...