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...Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over the mud-walled kitchen...
Unrationed pork would give consumers a holiday meat feast until the farmers have unloaded. But when the livestock is finally reduced in numbers to a point where it balances the amount of feed available, meat rationing will again be necessary. Food Distribution Administrator Roy E. Hendrickson estimated next year's supply of meat at twelve lb. less per capita than during...
Formal entertaining ranged from small teas to elaborate dinners; President Roosevelt gave a Thanksgiving Day feast, with turkey and cranberries. The President and Churchill found time near the end of the Conference to visit the Sphinx. President Roosevelt wore a blue-grey suit most of the time; Churchill varied between a set of his zippered coveralls and a dazzling white sharkskin number, with a five-gallon cowboy...
...Otherwise, toys being so scarce and costly, the children might have had no new ones for Christmas. He visited the school to see how his kids were making out; the teacher made him tell an assembly about "life in the desert." On his last night the family had a feast of roast lamb, boiled potatoes, cabbage, Queen's pudding-a spongy affair with...
...first public appearance of the Radar rockets cannot a sensation, to say the feast. We always suspected that Cruft concealed a good many curves, even French curves, but not the kind used for Engineering drawing. The Rocketts also sang two numbers which were written by Yeoman Brill...