Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago some of the best hotels in New York, Atlantic City, and Boston were beseiged with complaints from individuals who became ill after a meal in these hotels. Intensive search failed to reveal the cause. Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...Tyler, Tex., a brawny oil-field worker walked into the Gladewater Cafe, demanded fried chicken. Informed that no chicken was to be had, he spied a caged canary, ordered it fried "with plenty of gravy," paid $25 for his meal...
...first official appearance will come Thursday evening when he eats at the Union with the Class of 1940. No special formalities will be gone through, and the speech which he makes after the meal will be merely a short address of welcome...
...raising device was adopted last week when Chairman James A. Farley sat down with 1,300 other Democrats in Philadelphia's Penn Athletic Club. They ate fruit cocktail, consomme, filet mignon, two vegetables, combination salad, dessert and coffee and they paid a minimum of $100 apiece for the meal. Gross proceeds: $130,000 plus...
...Ciano, according to brother aviators, is an in different pilot, but recklessly brave. He eats more spaghetti, prepared with copious melted butter and cheese, than Edda thinks good for his figure. He seldom downs a cocktail, which Italians consider fattening, takes a glass or two of wine at every meal. When Father-in-law Mussolini went on what amounted to a fruit diet, so did Son-in-law Ciano, but his gastronomic passion at present is for fish...