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Word: dished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nature and machines are other characters in the larger drama. A wedge of planes blasts to bits the Rector's fuddling interpretation of the show; and butterflies are deluded by bright costumes on the grass: "Red Admirals gluttonously absorbed richness from dish cloths, cabbage whites drank icy coolness from silver paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mirror for England | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...read in today's Crimson that two British sailors visited Harvard yesterday, and "ate dinner at Lowell House, received their first taste of American football." I grant that food at Lowell undoubtedly leaves much to be desired, but does it not seem rude to serve such a dish to our foreign visitors? Louis Vorhaus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

After calisthenics and breakfast had been put out of the way and the arduous task of dish washing, the summer soldiers piled into tracks (there were no horses) and hauled the guns out on the range. Then half would be formed into gun crews to do the actual firing, the other half would go up on a hill to an observation post to observe and direct fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 76 SENIORS TASTE ARMY LIFE AT ETHAN ALLEN THIS SUMMER | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Discipline was rigorously enforced by use of the demerit system. Every ten demerits meant two afternoons on K.P., and K.P. meant dish washing, pot-scraping, sweeping, and even dusting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 76 SENIORS TASTE ARMY LIFE AT ETHAN ALLEN THIS SUMMER | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...saxophone-playing, airplane-flying, life-loving "pug" who is killed fifty years too soon. Mr. Jordan, the big boss in the Beyond, spends the remainder of the picture trying to right this unfortunate shift. Such a plot could easily have been overdone or underdone. As it is, the dish is juicily prepared, spiced with adventure, salted with philosophy, and served up with a humorous flourish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

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