Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own kitchen martyrdom ... to gain concessions and rewards. I know one woman who, on such a basis, got herself an extra television set, a fur coat, a small car and a separate bedroom-some husbands will do anything to insure their continuing to get a hot, home-cooked meal...
...head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch?" Woollcott once asked him. "Lobster Newburgh, cocoa and brandy." Said Woollcott with a shudder: "That's the worst meal since the Borden Breakfast...
...sense of common humanity melted away; a man saved himself. When a sniveling, fear-crazed sergeant begged to be carried, Gunner Braddon refused, then watched passively while a Jap guard pumped five bullets into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp...
...much for the review, then. That it is piece-meal, that it neglects Conant's part in the University's incredibly sound financing, in creating a workable system for appointments, in reshaping the graduate schools, and in other matters,--all this is obvious. What's been said, however, is enough to prove our point, that Conant has been an excellent president. That is the University's loss...
...night dinners as a social mixer for the House staff and undergraduates. The few traditions and ceremonies that the Table does have were designed by Coolidge to ward off pompousness and keep the atmosphere easy and friendly. Thus, alert to the malaise that accompanies the combination of a heavy meal, a discourse, and a tuxedo, he expressly banished any after-dinner orations. And Elliott Perkins, the present Master, follows the old Arabic custom of taking salt with one's friends; he passes around the table a large silver urn, the gift of Coolidge. The salt is no personal eccentricity...