Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cost of living has jumped about 25% at Oxford. The Oxonian who does nothing but study can barely get by on ?250 ($ 1,000 a year). To have an occasional tea party, an after-theater drink in the Randolph Hotel bar, or an infrequent meal at White's (the expensive new restaurant on The High), he would need at least ?350. The prewar prodigal who gave breakfast parties in his rooms, lunches with sherry, champagne, plovers' eggs and caviar, has gone with the food & drink...
Assistant Dean of Freshmen Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, in reply to numerous recent requests for a coupon system or reduced meal rates for undergraduates eating at the Union dining hall, yesterday announced that the 21 meal per week plan will not be altered...
...sand-colored marble palace in Athens, a short (5 ft. 2 in.), stiff-backed gentleman was having a lonely lunch of a simple entree and fruit. George of Schles-wig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, King of the Hellenes, was suffering from a stomach ulcer, and a heavier meal, combined with all his worries about his realm, would have been inadvisable...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...
...over by 1 p.m. and the company was back at the tank part for two hours of what the cavalry armored men still call "stables." The tanks were carefully worked over, guns cleaned. Then there was a dull lecture on military courtesy, an hour of athletics before the evening meal. After dinner Monson and two buddies changed to Class A uniform (cotton shirt and Eisenhower jacket), went down to the orderly room to pick up passes...