Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zucchini "with Sour Cream Sauce. "This came originally, I think, from a hotel chef, changed a little as it was handed on to me by a friend, and I changed it further. I used it as a dish for a group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner...
From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf...
...Hollywood, only to be turned back. Once he got as far as Brewster, N.Y., 52 miles from home in the wrong direction, before the cops caught him. One morning last week the call came again, loud and clear. Artie dialed the Trans World Airline counter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, told them he was going to Hollywood to make a picture and wanted a reservation. Yes, he said, the afternoon Constellation that stopped at Pittsburgh and St. Louis would be all right. He'd pick up the airport limousine at the hotel...
...Haven police stationed 200 men downtown--especially in the vicinity of the crowded Hotel Taft lobby, scene of more than one Friday night riot. Another 50 officers and ten patrol cars guarded the Bowl...
...stated, "One goalpost was traced to the railroad station, half of the other drove into a ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket post, and a member of the second post was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel...