Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Desserts. In Gallup, N.Mex., a beribboned G.I., just back from three years in a Jap prison camp, was served a dish of rice pudding in a restaurant...
...something of a showplace now, nine days after it was liberated, and there are certain things you have to see. There were two ovens there, each with six openings. It was a clean room with no smell. At one end was a wash basin with soap still in the dish and a door leading to the "Büro or office. At the other was a plaque hung high on the wall, black with a symbolic flame painted on it and a quotation from some German poet: "Let not disgusting worms consume my body . . . give me the clean bright flame...
...little before 7 to get the Vice President's breakfast-always fruit, milk and toast. She had given up trying to find a maid. Almost every evening she cooked supper, sometimes sighing a little over the dearth of beefsteak, her husband's favorite dish. She does not smoke; her husband does not approve of women with cigarets...
Minus one ingredient, "To Have and Have Not" would be another and a tiresome "Casablanca"--replete with an opiate air of international intrigue, whispering French restaurant proprietors, and dusky piano--but spicy Lauren Bacall provides the condiment to make the film a tasty, if not tasteful, Bogartian dish...
Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City's little Mayor, broadcast praise for his wife's "OPA pasta faggioli ... a perfect, well-balanced" noodles dish, cooked with "nice, brown kidney beans," escarole and onions. The starch-wary Mayor reported that pasta faggioli was so full of "the vitamins, the starches, and everything you need" that "when we have pasta . . . I have to go on a very strict diet for the next week...