Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Truman had some more ladies in to the White House-this time right into the kitchen. Out went the servants, and into aprons went the First Lady and friends. Occasion: luncheon for 70 students of the First Lady's Spanish teacher, who major-dominated the cooking. Climactic dish: picadillo...
...have fenders and bumpers made of clay-like a dish...
...clock drives in his lemon-colored limousine to an office in the center of Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive his chieftains. When he is gay (which happens often), he will take a sheikh into the palace and send him careering through the salons on a bicycle. He loves...
wife prepared to eat a fancy dish. En route to their table in Washington, as part of some fund-raising whoop-de-do in Houston, was a Texas capon that had recently won a stock-show championship. Value...
...dish in most respects, Diary ought to have turned out much saltier and spicier than it is. As the picture stands, it has its lights and moments, especially those in which Co-Producer Burgess Meredith, playing the part of a crazy old soldier, hops & skips around chewing flowers and ogling Paulette (Mrs. Meredith). But most of the comedy dissipates into cloudy, dimly political Gallic melodrama, and the raffish promise of the title is never redeemed...