Word: menus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much to be said for Mr. Gowney's complaint. Two years ago, when we were inmates--if I may use the word--of the Freshman Halls, the food was generally prepared in a very poor fashion. Save for a few standard dishes the articles on the so-called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome and nourishing, but youth has the outrageous habit of wishing its food...
...dinner was accompanied by printed menus which gave a very technical note to the feast. Among the dishes listed were fresh killed boilers, string polygons, and a new sort of pie, 3.1416 The most unique part of the dinner was that it was served on Marks and Davis steam tables, according to the menu...
...glorious future which the Committee has opened up before the nation is breath taking in its expanse. Gazing spellbound down the long aisles of light we seem to see invitations to the Postmasters' Ball written in Milionian sonnets, advertisements made worthy of a new Golden Treasury, and Waldorf menus gotten up in heroic couplets. Then and only then can we say with Dr. Pangloss that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds...
Representative Britten, who, like most of Congress, has just returned from an "investigation" of Europe, has much to say on a theme whose interest never fails--menus. His report may also throw some light on part of a hitherto obscure and much maligned matter of college policy, the wherefore of the French and German reading examinations...
...hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...