Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitresses, the following were replaced by new employees from Stefani's union: two dishmen and a pantry worker from the Freshman Union; a cook, salad man, and a busboy from Winthrop; an busboy and a truckman from Leverett; one glass-woman from Lowell; a busboy, a kitchen man, potwasher, dish man and spare man from the Main Kitchen on Boylston Street; a pot washer from the Medical School; and a utility man from the Business School...
Instead of doing that each time, why not go into the matter further and show that in many U.S. States the income-tax payers dish out as much as the English do. You don't seem to recall that Iowa and some other States have an income tax. In Iowa the Federal income tax is just chicken feed compared to the State tax, at least in the lower brackets...
Continuing in the same vein, they defended the use of mechanical dish-washers in the Union kitchen, saying that "they completely sterilize all the dishes which are put through them," and they save as well...
...break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located in a garbage pail. For months they could not walk upright; their muscles were powerfully developed...
...Moussorgsky and the "Mighty Band" school. Compared to the old Russian opera and ballet, the contemporary attempts are flimsy. When a tutee invited "Karpy" to a big club dinner, he enjoyed himself immensely--till the salad course appeared. It was caviar--served in bowls! The quantity of the rare dish never fazed him, but to eat caviar as a salad course was verging on the barbaric. Mores Americanos curdled his Russian taste on one other occasion, when his son started reading such magazines as Ranch Romances, The Shadow and Terror Tales. The Professor became quite worried. In Russia, Tolstoi...