Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feet, slicing turkey and spooning oyster dressing, during most of the meal, which also included lima beans, yams, squash, peas, turnips, pumpkin and mince pies. David was back for seconds before the last grownups got firsts...
According to a 1945 presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
Pleasing as a young Frenchman, Felicity gave herseslf away with her shocked reaction to the singing of bawdy songs after the meal...
...showing a Roman garden, the guests are served by waitresses dressed in silky purple pantaloons and boleros. In addition to buffalo steak, Sasha's offers such items as suckling pig (dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes), lamb, baby goat, pheasant and partridge. Price of a meal: $6.50 up. Among the regular Romans, some of whom like to wear togas for the occasion: Robert Cummings, Ray Milland. Lucy and Desi Arnaz. Explains Sculptor-Restaurateur Atanas Katcha-makoff: "The Roman Room gives people a chance to be aristocrats, be elemental, to enjoy themselves like before the last days...
This wage difference is a bit puzzling to the freshman worker. If he inquires at Lehman Hall, Dining hall officials speak of the old days when students were allowed to leave work before the final clean-up. For this privilege, they were docked in pay and lost a free meal. Though this concession to study has long since disappeared, the inequity lingers on. And the officials justify their inaction with worthy sentiments about not wishing a cut in the wages of town boys. The College workers, of course, do not advocate such a cut, either. Ninety-four cents an hour...