Word: menus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, surgeon, authority on intestinal disorders (TIME, Dec. 7), found his photograph printed on 40,000 menus of Lyons restaurants.* The printing was done without his knowledge. He needs no such publicity. Nor does such publicity injure his reputation, nor curtail his skill. None the less, the British Medical Association denounced him, even though he had resigned from it a year ago because of professional criticism of his disease prevention work.† At this time Sir William simply folded his hands and declared: "In England, if any one writes to the newspapers and signs his name...
Special Christmas Menus...
...lowly and patient condition of waiters upon the unhurried gods of the kitchen, so long as the savor of corned beef and cabbage waters the mouths of the multitude, so long the institutions and faiths of America will go on, uninjured by the inroads of French, Italian, or Russian menus or even by the jargonized Americanese of the aspiring Greek...
...menus prepared by the powers benign...
Many another delicacy, too numerous to mention, was printed on the gilt menus, while the Zakouska, Russian equivalent for hors d'ouevres, consisted of everything from an olive to caviar, not excepting sterletes sigi-a rare and costly fish...