Word: macaroni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Tuesday, I told my husband that my mother was observing meatless day. She was having macaroni & cheese, deviled eggs, baked potatoes, coffee and dessert...
...whose wares are popular in the English provinces (TIME, March 3), had no luck selling Hamlet, King Lear and As You Like It to Broadway critics, and only fair luck selling The Merchant of Venice. But last week when he fished up Ben Jonson's Volpone (rhymes with macaroni), a play that modern Broadway had never seen as Jonson wrote it,* the crowd- or, at any rate, the critics-made an excited grab...
Although you might be tempted to treat the neatly-printed from as merely light reading over a trayful of baked macaroni and cheese, this little questionnaire has been gotten up with an extremely sensible care. The first question, for example, runs: "Are you interested in attending student-produced plays at Harvard? Yes? No?" There's the whole problem. You can circle "No" and concentrate on the macaroni. If you consider yourself a wit, there's plenty of shiny white space and a number of detailed questions that can be answered hilariously with a fine-pointed pencil...
...photographers, saying with authority: "That's bad farm practice." Experts agreed that Butch was no authority, but no one minded that. He watched a parade of trucks poop-poop through Climax loaded with 20,000 bushels of wheat. He made a speech, waving a few pieces of macaroni: "This is a day's ration in many places...
...each of the country's one thousand richest citizens to get additional backing for the currency. By last week the gold cure seemed to be working. In general, prices had stabilized. Cheese, butter and eggs were still high in Athens, but prices of peas, beans and macaroni were steady and Allied shipments of food and civilian goods, which will help keep prices down, were steadily increasing...