Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it would be unfair to the men in the House to say that they live to eat, rather than eat to live; it cannot be denied that the Winthrop House Dining Hall is popularly elected as that part of the House "most likely to succeed." Every man in the House will agree that the popularity of the dining hall can be attributed to Mrs. De Pinto, the Head Waitress. The academic year is hardly launched before Mrs. "Dee" knows the names of all "her boys." Her charming smile and friendly word has brightened up many a luncheon or dinner...
...liquids with a spoon, taking them with a sucking movement. She also would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She began to soil herself regularly and had to be changed without giving any assistance, the nurse using large cloths in the manner of diapers. She would eat, sleep, make peculiar noises and cry. She liked to be fondled and handled by almost anyone. Her only recognition of her family was an expression of delight when they came...
...which included elephants from Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus, and cooch dancers.† Moscow does not care about the 700 free meals daily in Manhattan's slums for which Mrs. Davies, who provided such amenities as "second helpings" and small tables at which impoverished families could eat together en famille, became known as "The Lady Bountiful of Hell's Kitchen." It is also immaterial to Bolsheviks that the American Flag Association, impressed by Mrs. Davies' vigor in helping its drive against U. S. crime, asked Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt to perform the act of dubbing...
...daughter a world-champion skater was to remove her from school, take her to Norway for expert skating instruction. The next year the Colledges stayed in London and Cecilia's training was entrusted to Swiss Jakob Gerschweiler. He lived in the Colledge home, told Cecilia what to eat, taught her not only skating but also French and German. For eleven months a year for the next eight years Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages. For recreation she took lessons in cooking and English literature. Dr. Colledge...
Bingham declared that the chief benefit from the training tables came not from the food served at them but from the punctuality with which the athletes must eat, the opportunity for the members of the teams to get together, and the fact that the more men that eat her the more chance there is for waiters' jobs for members of the team...