Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henri's narrative is succulent with descriptions of good things to eat and how to make them even better. He appends 30 pages of recipes which cannot be read aloud without frequent swallows. A master chef in the great French tradition, Henri thinks no culinary detail too homely to be treated artistically. Typical is his precept to neophyte waiters: "Carve a ham as if you were shaving the face of a friend." Tall, white-haired (he is 54), of stately port and bonhomous mien, Henri admits he is pretty well done, but he is in no hurry to be taken...
...Magoun needs to be called severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
...through Boston from the Huntington Avenue Yards to Park Street subway station where it will board special trains for Cambridge. After detraining the cadets will march up Boylston Street and into the Yard through the Johnson Gate. Because of limited facilities in the Union half of the group will eat at 11.15 o'clock, while the remainder, will eat at 11.45 o'clock...
...work of the first committee may not involve a report, but its general objectives will be 1.) to arrange with the college authorities to allow Freshmen to eat a certain number of meals in the houses during the second half year without extra charge, and 2.) to advise Freshmen about the Houses and also about their field of concentration with reference to the Houses...
...dozen other questions and answers followed, some elaborately facetious. When May inquired what the automaton liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...