Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down to table at the Executive Mansion in Harrisburg, Pa. one evening last week sat Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and 49 other persons unaccustomed to dining on black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger steak. With many a polite smile and exclamation they proceeded to eat not only black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger but also cornbread, spinach, apple & orange salad, ice cream. Not because Governor Gifford Pinchot was serving them the menu did his guests exclaim, but because he had paid for each one's food (except the ice cream, which came extra) only...
...Doukhobors are thrifty, peace-loving. They eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco. In their communal life, marriages (compulsory for all) are effected simply by taking partners. The Doukhobors are averse to paying taxes and putting their children in provincial schools. Their resentment against schools they sometimes expressed by burning them. Nakedness is a part of the Doukhobors' religious practice, especially in a fanatical inner sect called the "Sons of Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons...
...constant wonderment. "Off with their heads, off with their heads!" shrills Joseph Schildkraut as the Queen of Hearts. And the Mad Hatter (Landon Herrick) runs about cup in hand with IN THIS STYLE IO/ 6 stuck in his towering headpiece. The Walrus and the Carpenter, two large marionettes, eat little marionette oysters as pot-bellied Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Gryphon, the Duchess (''Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes")-all appear in scenes which occur and vanish incredibly. The Duchess' squealing baby...
...allowed need not be as great as is allowed each upperclassman who takes 21 meals. As a tentative opening, each man might be allowed one meal a week in any House he chose. Authorities, moreover, have small reason to fear a demand for a reciprocal agreement, allowing upperclassmen to eat in the Union. In short, a move allowing Freshmen limited inter-House dining privileges would be well advised; it could scarcely lead to the abuses which its opponents fear...
...concluded as she went off to the kitchen. "You'll pardon me. I have to help with the supper now, and believe me these girls eat a lot; they're mostly a good, wholesome, outdoor type...