Word: menu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write a column for its vacationing Gossipist Dorothy Kilgallen. In carefully fractured English, Sophia (or a waggish ghost) ground out some profound pap. Of men and their sex drive: "[A man] is like a small boy in a restaurant. Can only eat a little bit, but wants the whole menu. He cries if somebody else eat a little too. But if nobody wishes canard sauce bigarrade, he don't wish either. Can be starving, still no canard sauce bigarrade," Sophia's advice to American girls: "Everything I've got I got from eating spaghetti...
...Sheraton-Park shortly after 7 p.m., grinned and handshook his way through a reception, sipping at a Scotch-on-the-rocks, then at part of another. His color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself displayed at dinner of White House News Photographers Association...
Pirelli put in cafeterias to give all workers at least one big meal every day at a nominal fee of eight lire (about 1?) per meal. Sample menu: minestrone, roast veal, vegetables, cheese, dessert, half a pint of wine. Workers can go to free vacation camps on the Italian Riviera; their children can go to the Italian Alps in summertime, while retired oldsters can spend their waning years in a free home at Iduno, near Lake Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages...
Moskowitz's group will work together with the existing Inter-House Foods Committee, which is not responsible to the Council. The group will present a report to the Council and the student body, no later than May, on University purchasing, food preparation, and menu planning...
Scher said yesterday that his survey would report primarily on problems of University purchasing, budgeting, and menu-planning. He stated that he did not intend to stress student evaluation of existing meals, as the Inter-House survey attempted to do, although he said that dissatisfaction with reading and exam period meals was the immediate stimulus for his bill...