Word: meatlessness
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...cheap food should also be clean food); 2) the quick-lunch craze (when they went into business there was nothing but the free-lunch saloon between carrying your own lunch to work, or eating at a leisurely, expensive "continental" restaurant). Periodically Childs ran into stone walls - as when wheatless, meatless days in World War I ate into its flapjack sales, and when the speakeasy era made its white-tiled, antiseptic restaurants look antediluvian to devotees of the intime hole in the wall...
Animal Husbandry. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Betty Phillips sued for divorce, charged that when the meat shortage developed, her husband's pet lion "came first" at mealtimes, and she went meatless...
...rest of the cast wanders through the thin story suffering badly from general cases of meatless Tuesdays all week. Thin, raw-boned and badly undernourished, their acting mirrors the effects of having to eat turnips for eight years on the nation's stages. If you've ever eaten too many turnips, you know the symptoms...
...Detroit, canned fish, spaghetti, beans and soups were hard to get. The city faced an almost meatless Christmas, because quotas had been set on the basis of 1941 population, took no account of the new 336,000 population increase (TIME, Dec. 14). Butter dealers got 20% of their orders. Seventeen of Detroit's 18 packing houses closed for lack of meat...
Solomon Grundy. In Chicago, Brunswick A. Bagdon, lover of rare roast beef, returned from a trip in which he was refused it in Manhattan on meatless Tuesday, in Washington on meatless Wednesday, in Cincinnati on meatless Thursday. At home he ate fish on Friday, looked forward to Saturday...