Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only real English dish, the people's food in the real sense of the word, is sweetmeats. Everyone in England, old or young, male or female, eats sweets. There are almost as many sweet shops as tobacconists. Sweetstuffs spoil the appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...
...Shredded to bits, it was then blown into the bowl. Queen Sorenson added 100 gallons of ready-mixed mayonnaise. Wading in, the three girls stirred, churned, whipped, mashed. Dripping from head to foot with lettuce & mayonnaise, they pitchforked it out to eager Kentians, for whom there is no tastier dish...
Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
...watched people buying carnival costumes of "white Satan." At Antibes she lived in a villa built "by French Pheasants." Among the foreign colony: "There are plenty of scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable equanimity has been disturbed. ''The French are called the Sweetheart Nation because...