Word: dished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Withington who considers his dish in the category of oysters on the half-shell, announced that he was answering all letters and planned to invite Miss Georgia Browne to the Jubilee. It is believed, however, that she will refuse for fear that Withington will have to eat another fish to finance the weekend...
...survey of undergraduate greed yesterday played havoe with service in House Dining Halls, as waitresses were ordered to secure a signature for every second helping and every dish not included on the menu. The white, "No Charge" slips had then to be approved by the head waitress before the order could be served...
...towns they visit, the most indispensable member of this staff is his private chef. With romantic Paderewski, food is a romantic passion. He is partial to lamb, chicken and turkey, worships caviar, pheasant and sweet champagne. If he is about to visit a town famous for some particular dish, he always telegraphs ahead to have some of it specially prepared for him. On concert days he lunches at 4 p.m., dines at midnight...
...perfect dish requires a chef as well as a recipe. One For The Money makes an endurable evening because it always seems to be going somewhere; but it never arrives. The best sketches-satires on Eleanor Roosevelt, parlor games, rabid Wagnerians-are full of fun but not really funny. The best lyrics trip off the tongue but do not lodge in the mind. The performers are gay and bright but, except for Author Hamilton and Brenda Forbes, have no more individuality than a buck private's uniform...
...National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong playing "Jeepers Creepers"; a murder mystery, and Maxine Sullivan singing "Mutiny in the Nursery;"--that is the dish the University is serving up today and tomorrow. In its serious moments, except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side...