Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Same day Lord Woolton forced London restaurateurs into a gentlemen's agreement that henceforth, while there will still be no official food rationing in British restaurants (such as there has been in German restaurants for the past 15 months), a British restaurant patron can have a dish of fish, meat, poultry, cheese or eggs, but only one of the five at any meal...
...different portrait painter. Most of 460 Park Avenue's clients are bank presidents, business executives, hotel managers, or fond family folk who want a portrait of husband, wife or child. By looking over Mmes. Shaw & Duplaix's samples, they can decide which artist is their dish. Prices range from $50 (for a drawing job by Portraitist Hester Merwin) to $7,000 (for a high-class likeness, John Sargent style, by famed Society Painter Charles Hopkinson). For each job it gets them, 460 Park Avenue charges its artists a 33⅓ % commission...
...well-armed and on their guard against stabbings and shootings. When the soldiers bought eggs, they had to pay $1.20 a dozen, and then the Icelandic grocers had to be watched as they would put only ten in the bag. Icelandic diet was narrow. Mutton appeared in nearly every dish, stewed, boiled, broiled, roasted, fried. The weather was harsh, and the soldiers lived in tents which they ironically named
...German soldiers get double rations. But even with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with...
...offer a few bright spots in an otherwise dull picture. Just as clever but not nearly so frank as in Gypsy Rose Lee's World Fair show, the two funsters show good Hollywood possibilities. The program as a whole, though, is a fair side order and a poor main dish...