Word: dished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Balinese prince, returned from his European tour, sees a coolie girl he wants just before she marries a member of her own caste. After the marriage, the prince has his sister get a sorcerer's potion (goona-goona) and give it to the coolie girl in a dish of rice. He has the husband sent away and has his will with the drugged wife, leaving his royal hereditary kriss (jeweled, big-handled-sword) behind. The husband finds it, kills the prince, is himself killed...
...John Ruffin Green was looking for a name for the tobacco he made in Durham, N. C. Over a dish of fried oysters a friend, John Y. Whitted, pointed to the mustard jar and said: "There is a condiment that is made in Durham, England. It bears the sign of a Durham bull's neck. Why not name your product Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco and adopt the whole bull as a trade-mark?" Tobaccoman Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward...
Once upon a time, in the Rio Arriba country, there was a fat, smart priest, Padre Martinez, who knew how to lick a dish and have it too. His religious ministrations paid him well, except in the little placitá of San José. Here he was treated as an ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely. Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron...
...told her I was going to carry her to an ambulance and she replied: 'I know what you are going to do.' ... I carried her out and put her in the hole. I placed some quilts, a blanket and her coat in the hole and put a dish pan over her head. Then I filled up the hole with dirt and the next day I put a concrete floor in the hen coop...
...Jacques Kahn presented a chafing dish full of spaghetti and a bowl of French dressing in token of his interest in cooking. After the second day the French dressing was removed...