Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarce. Then the boys and girls went to school and the women had to go out and queue up for fish, if they could find some fish, and other foods. This took several hours, then they went home to make dinner, mostly potatoes. There are a hundred ways to fix potatoes. We had meat, usually half veal and half horse, once every four months...
Like Mother's. Same con game: two U.S. soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
...year-old president of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bowman, whose books, map-making and fact-finding expeditions (notably in South America) made him a front-rank political geographer-as opposed to geopolitical writers-was a ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there helped fix European boundaries. A reporter asked if Dr. Bowman's presence meant that boundaries were to be discussed in London. Replied the President: they might discuss bananas, and Dr. Bowman knows where bananas grow...
...Diego, Calif. A drawling, deadpan Texan, onetime reporter, as a 2nd Lieut. he snatched from Soissons, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading a Chinese beachhead attack against the Japs. At his death he was serving in the Amphibious Training Command...
...Mayers promptly sent the Captain $200, asked him to get leave, come East and fix Anna. They also sent the number of a local telephone booth where the doctor could get in touch with them (the Mayers have no phone...