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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill of Fare. Summer boarders at Peggy's eat well. For breakfast there are bacon & eggs, toast, marmalade or jam, home-made bread or rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...
...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
Along the French Riviera, most of the war damage was repaired. The famed. white Negresco hotel in Nice was open, A meal with wine at Cagnes-sur-Mer cost 60?. All told, in eleven days in France, he exchanged only $52 at the official rate...
University dining halls are collecting over $2,000,000 this year, at a cost per meal of 55 cents. "But you can be assured that our food is of good quality, an ample and carefully selected diet, and as well prepared as we know how," he told the alumni...
Before dawn one morning last week, Willie was ready, dressed in his newly pressed Sunday pants. He ate a last meal of catfish and potatoes. At noon the cell door opened. Said Father Charles Hannigan: "We've been practicing walking the way he wants to walk the last mile. Willie says he's going to walk it steady...