Word: menu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Striving to persuade housewives to do more home baking, the Pillsbury Co. has given away more than $1,000,000 in baking-contest prizes, many of them for gooey concoctions that would dull even the sweet tooth of a teenager. Last week, in a pleasant change of menu, the grand prize in Pillsbury's annual national baking contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte...
Divorced from Hungarian Writer Josef Bard after four years of marriage, Dorothy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to embark on a new career: wife to Novelist Sinclair Lewis. As energetic a spouse as she was reporter, she gave up heavy reading for menu planning, bore Lewis a son, hosted his parties. But as Dorothy and "Red" drifted apart (they separated in 1937), she took on more and more work...
...than 15% of public high school students are enrolled in a modern foreign-language course (almost none study ancient languages). Most take French or Spanish; rare are courses in Russian, Chinese, German, Italian or Portuguese. Even students exposed to languages may not take on enough ability to read a menu. Weighting the odds against the student, according to the report: ill-taught teachers, outdated textbooks, aimed at giving no more than reading knowledge, courses too short (generally two years) for proper instruction...
...Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language: "She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"; "The Skin You Love to Touch"; "Which Twin Has the Toni...
Fresh fruit salad appears in Lowell House about as often as does oyster stew. This correlation may be stated with some exactness, since neither has appeared on the menu during the memory of the oldest inhabitants...