Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meal, Message, Mail...
Only one official meal does the President of the U. S. have to eat outside the White House this season-a formal dinner given by the Vice President. Last week President & Mrs. Roosevelt ate their obligatory meal. Three days later the President let it be known that, as far as he was concerned, the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1936 was going to be John Nance Garner...
...Washington the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club held its first meeting of the year, lunched, as usual, on a meal prepared by some of its members. For the main course, Mrs. William Warren Barbour, pretty wife of New Jersey's senior Senator, brought in chicken salad. Said she: "I made it myself. I know it's good." At 1 o'clock the hostesses tied name cards around their necks, began serving, soon found that they had underestimated their guests' appetites. First to go was Mrs. Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held...
...turnover could stand a tax of $24,000,000,000 a year. At that point, the folk over 60 might be getting their $200 a month - but they would find they could not buy the automobiles they now think they could. A haircut would cost say $2 ; a sexagenarian meal of bread and milk would cost...
This surplus amounted, for the college year 1933-34, to a little over one cent per meal. With such a narrow margin, it is evident that only a slightly increased amount of waste would turn the scale. It is the endeavor to avoid waste which sometimes results in a dish being used up before every one who may order it has been served. This has been known to occur even in the best hotels and clubs...