Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madame de Montluçon, who once showed Senator Daudier her low-necked Chanel dress, which crawled with "rather large pearl caterpillars." "Quite edible," said the Senator, "but I should have preferred to have the caterpillars served in a separate dish...
...Bishop Garbett had earned the right to drink a dish of tea without a ring of Southwark's grime within the cup. He was translated to the country Diocese of Winchester. In influence the Bishop of Winchester is second in the province of Canterbury. He becomes, automatically, Prelate of the Order of the Garter. In his diocese is the big port of Southampton, whose waterside slums, though less imperial than Portsea's, were still imposing...
...position . . . The various Italian [anti-Fascist] parties . . . have ... no constitutional authority. . . . When you have to hold a hot coffeepot it is better not to break off the handle until you are sure that you can get another equally convenient and serviceable, or at least that you will find a dish cloth handy...
Author George Sessions Perry has served a dish of Hackberries before in a moving, serious novel called Hold Autumn in Your Hand. Hackberry Cavalier is more of a side dish-17 rollicking, frivolous stories (mostly reprinted from the Satevepost and other magazines) crammed with action and built around romance as soft as a two-minute egg. Readers who like their romance that way will like Author Perry's staggering galaxy of buxom, cherry-cheeked girls...
Instead of gobbling their meager food, the Leningrad children hoard it. They slowly drink the liquid part of their soup first, then slowly eat the bits in the bottom of the dish. Often they crumble their bread into matchboxes to be munched furtively later...