Word: kitchen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...
...Sligo in 1865, of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in the most Catholic of nations, a minority man from the start. He was a wretched schoolchild, slow to read, timorous, bullied. But he learned from his grandparents the grand patriarchal images which never left him, and from poor relations and kitchen servants the supernatural and prehistoric lore which was both to illumine and befuddle his poetry; and he learned from his magnificent father the lesson which an artist must learn: "Self-interest and self-preservation are the death of poetry...
...story reaches a furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...
When he began working for the University in April, 1903, as steward in Randall Hall, now the University Press, the only other dining room was Memorial Hall. The kitchen was in the basement and men ate in the large room now used for examinations. While Widener Library was being built, books were stored in Randall and Merrill became stoward of Foxcroft Hall which had been converted into a dining room. Foxcroft stood behind the New Lecture Hall where the new chemical laboratories have since been crected. After a brief period of service here Merrill became assistant steward and then steward...
...never forget President Eliot," Merrill said. One day when I was stooping over in the kitchen checking on some broken dishes, someone tapped me on the back. Upon turning I immediately recognized Eliot because of the scar on his face. "Would you please see that salt and pepper shakers are sent out with the meals taken to the sick boys," Eliot said. At that time meals were delivered to men unable to come to the dining hall...