Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathrobes, in front of fire. J. reads aloud, some book of travel or adventure...
...berries, other fruit in season. Cereal-oatmeal, or cold dry, according to season. Heavy cream. Meat, fish, eggs-corned beef hash with eggs; fresh fried blackfish with salt pork; ham or bacon with eggs; creamed chicken (left over) on toast, etc. Honey or marmalade on toast made over open fire...
...cream, broiled mushrooms, etc. Soup-tinned (wide choice) or from chicken or beef stock we have made. Or broiled lobster tails or cold boiled fish with mayonnaise. Entree-meat (generally chops, beefsteak, chicken or veal cutlet) or fish (lake trout au court bouillon), Chops and steak broiled over open fire. Chicken similarly broiled or else boiled with rice. Veal cutlets dredged in flour, cooked in skillet with water and served with mushroom sauce. Squab chicken on spit before open fire. Two green vegetables, potatoes or rice. Sweet pie or homemade pudding, such as apple betty, bread pudding, rice pudding, custard...
...never before in Salazar's 26 years' rule had an opposition candidate - in the 30-day "freedom" period that Salazar theoretically grants before an election-been able to show how much unrest lies below the surface. Opposition Candidate Humberto Delgado, an air force general who promised to fire Salazar if elected, ran into familiar difficulties: 1) he was not allowed to speak in the city of Braga because he might "interfere" with an annual religious pilgrimage; 2) his Lisbon headquarters had the letter S (for Salazar) smeared on its walls, was repeatedly raided by the police. Strongman Salazar...
...helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples of the lewd fiend Belial." One gay dawn in 1856, the place burned down again, scattering...