Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spaghetti Boom. In Garland, Tex., Fred Harris put up a sign in his cafe: "Potato dinner $1.35. Big Idaho potatoes. Rest of meal free." Elsewhere, other restaurants began offering substitutes. Manhattan's elegant Chambord restaurant prepared to fly in potatoes from wherever they could find them...
Lamp Oil Internally. Way back in the Thurber cousinhood there was Dr. Beall. a homeopath in a plug hat, who believed in "small doses of mild drugs, a heavy meal three times a day, a good cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took...
Students will take their last College meal on the evening of Tuesday, June 10. William A. Heaman, Manager of the Dining Halls, said yesterday that board rates will end then. Those who plan to linger in Cambridge may eat, and pay with coupons, at Adams House until Tuesday dinner, June 17. Harkness Commons and the Graduate Dining Halls will close on Saturday June...
...that the important are most easily seen. In the bare old dining room on the fourth floor of the Metropolitan Club, with its memories of mustaches and Madeira wine and terrapin Maryland, the unleisurely men of today take only a few minutes off to talk personalities over a hurried meal of Ry-Krisp and iceberg lettuce. There are newsworthy faces at every table. A man speeds up the conversation with his lunch eon partner to get a chance to exchange a word with someone more important who's just shoving back his chair...
...pale green drawing room with North's own brand of Old-Fashioneds, then the party moves to the dining room, which is dominated by a large mural of Lady Godiva setting out on her ride. A French chef produces a four-or five-course meal (with three vintage wines), and the meal is rounded out with liqueurs. Towards midnight the party moves off to the hotel North owns in Sarasota, to take in the cabaret, which is entirely composed of acts being prepared for the circus...