Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public was exhorted to "exercise every economy" in the use of fuel. The stores were shy of fresh meat. Water was cut off here & there. "Something" happened to the pipes at Buckingham Palace and it was said that for a whole day His Majesty King George VI had to forego a bath. London suburbanites took hours to get to & from work...
...this enlightened age, the superstition which prevents many people from eating crab and ice cream or milk at the same meal. This is entirely a superstition, not based on one iota of fact; yet, we dined at a famed Philadelphia club as late as last year and had to forego ice cream for dessert because we had eaten crab meat for luncheon! Many of Maryland's finest recipes for cooking the crab call for milk, and we, after the Philadelphia incident, have made a point of conspicuousness outside of the "Free State," and always couple crab meat...