Word: menus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...
...Nance Garner made some amends to history. After announcing last month that he had built a bonfire of his political records, "Cactus Jack" relented and gave the University of Texas 34 scrapbooks he had preserved. Thirty contained old newspaper clips, but four were a treasure house of place cards, menus, invitations to luncheons, plus a daily social squib in Mrs. Garner's own hand...
...House of Commons last week, Labor M.P. Benn Levy asked if the Parliament dining-room menus could henceforth be printed in English instead of French. Promptly, Mrs. Ayrton-Gould gave Levy a quick lesson in French and economy. Said she: "May I point out to the Honorable Member . . . that hors d'oeuvres is described as 'an appetizing savoury of vegetables, fish, etc., served before the first course'. . . . It would not be easy to print this shortly and concisely on the menu...
...report will recommend that the new Council appoint a committee to review the same menus made up by the dining hall stewards before they are submitted to the University dietitian...
...committee would be instructed to check for variety of fare and for serious discrepancies in the quality of the menus submitted by the various kitchens...