Word: dished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the Willkie house was too small, they met in the Masonic Lodge over the Princess Theatre on North Street, and the matrons of the Eastern Star were deputized to prepare lunch featuring Hoosier Willkie's favorite dish, fried chicken...
Director Lloyd, who performed a similar service for the British with his 1933 Oscar winner, Cavalcade, knows how to dish out history without resorting to textbook technique. He likes to take a few typical characters of the period, run them through the normal complications of normal people, silhouette them against a background of great dates, deeds, land marks. Thus he fashioned The Howards into a deft exposition of the forces which combined to create...
...concrete terms this means that classics professors will lecture on "Virgil and the Present World Crisis," chemists and physicists on "Science and the War," and so on; even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages...
...upset and fearful for the fate of our nation and people that the only ultimatum I can foresee is destruction of all that took so many years to build up. We all want cold, clean facts-but must they all be so disheartening? Cannot you probe-dig in-and "dish us out" a few encouraging remarks...
...board of Punch (funny weekly). Commanding his yacht Water Gipsy he helps patrol the Thames, boasts that all members of his crew are ready for instant action at all times. To prove this, during dinner on board one night, he barked: "Lady Astor overboard!" The steward put down a dish he was passing, plunged over the rail...