Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady got served all right, and worked her way through a meal, sitting with her escort and another couple. Along about the salad, there was a shriek of recognition from one of Eliot's more colorful waitresses. "It's a man,' she lisped, and then it was known...
Please note that we evacuees have been suffering shortages since last May. We mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
Headlining the show are Veloz & Yolanda, whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert-and persistent -with a guitar; Jerry Shelton is lively-and lavish-with an accordion; Al & Lee Reiser are energetic-and relatively brief -with two pianos. The Golden Gate Quartet harmonizes-and with not too much variety. Susan Miller sings-a little too close to the microphone. Bill Gary dances-a little too much like Paul Draper...
...been converted into a dining room. Foxcroft stood behind the New Lecture Hall where the new chemical laboratories have since been crected. After a brief period of service here Merrill became assistant steward and then steward of Memorial Hall. Memorial Hall at this time served about 1400 at every meal--a far cry from the House plan of today feeding only several hundred or less at a meal...
After the meal Oliver went to his book-crammed quarters (he said he always expected the Mad Hatter to appear crying out "No room, no room"), where he held open house far into the night. Students dropped in "just for a moment," stayed hours on end. Tired in body, he generally sat propped...