Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal mail, ended at 11, when he made his daily entry in the personal diary he has kept faithfully for 25 years. He had much to record. There had been two luncheons at Buckingham Palace: a formal affair during which he sat near Princess Elizabeth, and a private meal with the King & Queen. He spent a weekend with Churchill at Chequers, talked personally with soldiers like Eisenhower and Montgomery, politicians like Foreign Secretary Eden and Dominions
...Beautiful Meal. Then King went visiting, first privately to an R.C.A.F. bomber group whose squadrons bear the nostalgic names Snowy Owl, Alouette, Thunderbird and Goose. Later, with Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey and a retinue of correspondents in attendance, he ate an open-air lunch at a Canadian army camp. A foresighted quartermaster had sent to London for lobster to perk up the army menu. Cabled the Toronto Daily Star's Fred Griffin: ". . . the most beautiful meal I have eaten since leaving Canada nearly two years ago." The Prime Minister reviewed Canadian troops, made no speeches. In 1941, when...
...Recently, at a dinner in honor of a Croatian delegation, a guest paid no attention to the ban on total-war talk and started telling of the frightful consequences of the [Allied] bombing attacks. Icy silence fell upon the company. Hitler stopped his meal and indicated that he wanted to leave the table. But at the last moment an outburst was avoided, and the dinner went on its normal course again...
When Guaragnella ranged the fish docks offering $40 a ton for soup-fin sharks that fishermen had been glad to sell to fish-meal grinders for $10, his competitors figured he had gone shark-shearing mad. But when his secret leaked out, the price soared to $1,500 a ton. By last year, the quantity of soup-fin livers had risen from 40,000 Ib. in 1937 to 1.4 million...
...Said Mr. Lewis philosophically: "Money isn't everything. We've got money enough now to get anything we neEd, but we can't get any good corn meal...