Word: dished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dish of strawberries was the reputed agency which brought to an abrupt close, last week, the 45th session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva (TIME, June...
...this university town of ours the intellectually starved may find countless opportunities for delectable satisfaction. He may glut himself on great slices of history, literature, and economic theory. He may find stern, simple dishes in the fields of science and engineering, or he may delight a delicate fastidiousness with the nicer arts of music, painting, and sculpture. But the physically famished, the Philistine who suffers only from an empty belly, will find vain the search for sustenance of a similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even...
...only solution is that your magazine, like most of the others, caters to the wants of the masses. The American people enjoy humbug, and you serve them their favorite dish, instead of opening their minds to the better and truer things of life. I cannot see why the article "Men and Apes" [TIME, June 28] might not have been presented just as effectively had you left out the reference to "Atheist Smith...
Goat Alley. The fact that all the actors and characters in this play are Negroes lends a flavor of piquancy to what might otherwise be an undistinguished dish of canned melodrama. The heroine is forced by poverty and misunderstanding, from one man's bosom to another's, thereby irritating her husband into catastrophic petulance. He does his beastly best, poor fellow, in the third act, never realizing that deep down she loved him always. "Earnest but crude," said generous critics...
...beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish destined for the alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly he sank to the ground, spasm after spasm of pain shaking him from head...