Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madrid is an accurate index to the expansive mood of Spain's rich & mighty who follow the traditional social season-Seville in April, Madrid in May and June, San Sebastian in July and August (then back to the Madrid black market for the drab winter months). Now they jam the Palace and Chicote bars, their ranks reinforced by distinguished foreign refugees such as the Petacci family of Mussolini's late mistress, Clara...
...Brussels, Rita Hay worth fainted in a jam of admirers just as she was about to be presented to Belgium's Minister of the Interior. She was revived within a few minutes and got busy signing autographs...
Instead, Greening landed in the Italian P.W. camp at Chieti, and there learned that art sometimes pays. For Greening it paid a pack of cigarets or a can of jam per portrait of his fellow prisoners. "On lean days," Greening remembers, "my roommates and I would eat jam until we were sick. Sometimes when the food ran out all over we'd give the jam back to the guys it came from." Greening also staged an art show in an unused latrine, which was held over "by popular demand...
...minute past noon, after 100 miles, the crowd stood up as Holland's blue racer got into a traffic jam streaking into the southwest turn. Young Bill cut sharply to the inside and off the track, dug a deep track in the grass and shot back on to the brick. Behind him a bright orange racer spun out of control, turned two circles and crashed into the outside retaining wall. Oil from its wounded motor oozed downward across the speedway but there was no pace slackening; other cars splashed through the puddle. Within a few minutes, the loudspeakers announced...
Bill of Fare. Summer boarders at Peggy's eat well. For breakfast there are bacon & eggs, toast, marmalade or jam, home-made bread or rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...