Word: dished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain John Smith was considered to possess the unfortunate qualifications of Jonah to the extent of causing a storm at sea, he suffered the same punishment of being cast forth from the ship; but on account either of his greater endurance or of the extra-ordinary lack of great-dish at the time, tradition has it that he out-Jonahed Jonah...
...Crow is not our dish. Only a man with the might of right can force it upon...
...that is just what this 'sidewalk-reared Prince' has done. He served us our first dish as we sat in the rain at Albany and listened to his acceptance speech. And he has kept us on a steady diet of crow ever since...
...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...
...Each summer freshmen at the Pennsylvania State College summer forestry camp are made to eat a dish of rattlesnake. African Negroes relish boa-constrictors...