Word: menus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought Americans the most generous people in the world. Little U.S. influences were all over England: movies, the tune The White Cliffs of Dover, most popular song in England; even Chicago pinball machines in London's penny arcades. The Briton-in-the-street, from constantly gazing at the menus of Hollywood, believed Americans the most fabulous doers and makers of all time. He would always prefer his Britain, just as it was; but some day he would like to see America for himself...
...experts all agree that Army food in the raw is usually good. But the cooks are often raw too. Even though they follow the master menus handed down by the Corps Area, Army cooks too often manage to turn even the best materials into uninviting dishes...
...Army cookbook is full of advice to cook dough until it is a "delicate brown," to keep meat "succulent and tender." There are also plenty of suggestions for mess sergeants, who are responsible for adapting Army menus to the locales in which their troops serve. Although soldiers in their first six months of service gain an average 8 to 16 Ib., few of them are satisfied with the food that is dished up to them...
Effective next Monday morning all University Dining Halls will adopt a new ruling under which an additional charge will be made for every extra order and second meal in accordance with a special price list which will be printed on the backs of the menus...
...deciding that the non-upholstered armchair for the College dorms should be designed to be comfortable with your feet on the table, and College dietitians deliberately planning extra good meals in the fall to make easier the transfer from home cooking and then in the spring again bettering the menus to meet the expected undergraduate protests about board--these are but a few of the additions Mr. Morse has made to Harvard folklore. The quarter of the book which deals with the younger Morse's however, will interest only the persons concerned...