Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earns less than $1 a day, to show you his week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend $2.28 on the black market. And in his household, where two people work, the combined income...
...Deep Dish. In Tuckahoe, N.Y., Mrs. Lathrop Barnaskey heard a crash in her cellar, found that a pastry truck had filled her coal bin with pies...
...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...
...Meat. In Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo Director R. Marlin Perkins pooh-poohed the meat shortage, recommended his favorite dish : fried rattlesnake...
...pink coats and popinjays were not really his dish. Never really happy unless he is closing-or opening-a deal, he kept a finger in the financial pot. He made friends with the great London bankers, J. Henry Schroder & Co. and Alfred Loewenstein, the hard-headed Belgian who came up from nothing to be rated as third richest man in the world, controlling a worldwide utility empire. And V.E. played the stockmarket. By 1928, when he had just turned 30, he was worth some $40,000,000-on paper. But it was not enough. It just whetted his appetite...