Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white Muscadet and 1947 Pu-ligny-Montrachet. "Simple French cooking is always the best," says Curnonsky. "When you've eaten a perfect meal, you know it, you don't feel...
...years here, Schmitt has been working with Jordan on what he calls "meat and potatoes" football. He explains it this way: "Just as the basic part of any good meal is the meat and potatoes, so are fundamentals the foundation of a good football team." Harvard is coming along fast, he thinks, but the Crimson is still a long way off. Since laying a good base of fundamentals at Harvard looks like a long-term proposition, the 35-year-old Schmitt, his wife and two young sons, have settled down to a long stay out in Waltham. Schmitt hopes some...
...magazine became a haven for published and unpublished poets, regardless of poetic school. They could always pick up encouragement and, if necessary, a meal. And for 24 years, like an encouraging schoolteacher, Editor Monroe sat waiting for fresh geniuses to blow in. Her office was rarely dull; nobody was much surprised when Vachel Lindsay appeared one day with a poem about King Solomon's 400 wives, and led Editor Monroe through an improvised dance while he chanted...
...nutritional value; there must be vegetables, for crispness and good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...bolted language; meal and bran together...