Word: menus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menus in a one week stay included three meals with macaroni as a main attraction, a meal made up of potato chips and an inedible salad, and meat loaf which tasted as if someone had misread the recipes on the back of a Corn Flakes box. Orange juice was always canned, and stewed fruits, and canned spice foods, not what one gives to a convalescing patient, made up the diet. Meat, with the exception of Sunday dinner, was poor and rarely present, while the fish on Friday had, better not be described in print...
Perle Mesta's parties are neither so fancy nor so noisy as Mrs. Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
They ate Missouri ham and hominy grits and sang the parody of Tipperary. They got Harry Truman's autograph on menus and dollar bills. There was a great deal of joking and ribbing. Eugene Donnelly, the battery wit, announced to the President: "Now Battery D is going to give you something about as worthless as a Republican County chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would...
...Cuban visitors were short-term tourists. Miami has a permanent Cuban colony of 5,000. Havana interests have also invested heavily in real estate and hotels. Cuban syndicates have bought into the big Everglades and Shoremede Hotels; the Royalton and America (also Cuban-owned) print their menus in Spanish. Reported Havana Newsman Miguel de Marcos: "Cuba has conquered Miami without firing a shot...
...Council also suggested that, following the example of the Union, the five Houses served by the central Kirkland kitchen, and Adams and Dunster organize committees to meet with the dining hall stewards to discuss menus, and food preparation in general...