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Word: menu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrie Nation once appeared and pleaded that wine jelly be dropped from the menu. Students promptly threw off her bonnet, and she was carried off on their shoulders, screaming that "everyone at Harvard is a hellion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Marks Its 75th Birthday; Cheers and Sneers Feature History | 11/15/1951 | See Source »

...Sample dinner menu two years ago: hors d'oeuvres with vodka, soup, shashlik, vegetable, fruit tart, tea, or coffee and chicory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Just Like Anybody | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw: "No, the thought of 2,000 people munching celery at the same time horrifies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Barnum of Books | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy village distills sweet-potato brandy, manufactures salt, china and wooden sandals, sponsors wrestling matches, sets up a teahouse with an international menu including everything from snapping turtles to borsch-and all because of First Flower and Lotus Blossom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Clean Fun on Okinawa | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Manhattan's furred & feathered café socialites turned out for an opening meal on the house when the Gayelord Hauser "Look Younger" Menu became a regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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