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Word: meals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strong Man" Conrad T. Budny '40 is Harvard's champion all-time, all-American milk swilier. Interviewed in his Kirkland House room yesterday, he confessed, "I seldom drink less than seven glasses of milk per meal. As long as I can remember I always drank a lot of milk--even before I was weaned. I started young and never broke the habit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Drinks Milk! | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...gong for the next round, she was winded. In fact, she was punch-drunk. She couldn't seem to select the rest of the meal. Every moment that she hesitated the nephew knew that she was losing ground. But what to do about it? Finally the elder struck out in desperation: "I haven't had any corn on the cob for some time. How would what go with clams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...affair of today will be a noon banquet, Lampoon men expressed the hope that there would be no repetition of what happened at the Yale Record a short while ago. The Record had invited the Lampoon to a friendly meal but the Harvard comedians found that they were expected to ante $1.50 rental and were so annoyed about the way the thing was being handled that they appropriated considerable silverware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON FEARS VANDALISM AS COMIC CONFAB OPENS | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

With rising passion, Maitre Aymoz got into his stride: "As the late Lord Dewar once facetiously remarked : 'In the old days a meal was opened with prayer; nowadays in many homes it is opened with a can-opener!' " But Aymoz was not above paying tribute to "one of the finest and most succulent, and nutritive dishes in the world'' - the U. S. hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food & Wisdom | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...favorite poem (secretly) was a parody of Emerson, reading By the rude bridge that arched the flood . . . Here once the bean-fed Thoreau stood. . . . She was envious rather than horrified by cannibal stories. Grandma Griswold's favorite horror story was about a deacon who wanted a Cooked Meal at night and, mind you, got up the next morning and wanted another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Die-Hard Puritan | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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