Word: meals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Make sure that the last meal of the day is light and easily digestible . . . avoid fresh fish and all fried foods . . . stewed tripe and boiled onions is a particularly good dish for those who like it. The boiled onions have a soporific effect...
...pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands but a shiny roadster that he piled up against a tree. In the cinema Joe fares better...
...rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America by a variety of conveyance from trailer to airplane, at meal times ate their fill for 20? of tasty Pennsylvania Dutch cooking...
Characteristic was her response when, campaigning for her husband in New Jersey, she was asked to describe their early married life. Said she: "You would like me to say that I cooked every meal for my husband for three years. That would be good campaign material, wouldn't it? But I didn't. . . . We always had a maid...
...little Lambs worshiped their forceful mother who ruled over vast, anarchic Melbourne House. Order-loving Lady Granville, in an exasperated moment, described it as "that great ocean, where they wander about all day and sleep about all the evening; no meal is at a given hour, but drops upon them as an unexpected pleasure." In that matriarchy, the strikingly handsome, tall, dark-eyed, sensual, clever, positive, realistic Lambs horse-played and horselaughed at delicacy and romance, ate prodigiously, fell asleep and snored, shouted their arrogant opinions, cursed loud and long. Yet they had immense love of life, good humor, adroitly...