Word: menus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hansenne has conscientiously tried to avoid the pitfalls-overeating and high living-which threaten the path of every visiting foreign athlete. He does not smoke, prefers milk to whiskey, tries to be in bed by 8 p.m., cannot understand why there is no horse-steak oh U.S. menus. On his one nightclub excursion, he got a satisfying eyeful of American girls, cautiously explained: "It does not harm to look, no?" A rabid jazz fan, he keeps his hotel-room radio going steadily for entertainment, sings above it his current favorite-"The Hatchayson, Topeka and the Santa...
Beyond the fence were other barriers. When the foreigners spoke brokenly or had trouble with restaurant menus, some Oswegonians snickered. Once, when a Yugoslav couple bade a visitor goodbye at the bus station and the men kissed each other on the cheek, townfolk watched with open amusement. Staid Oswego (pop. 22,062) was unprepared for such a massive transfusion; it could not help gaping, winking, misunderstanding, resenting...
...today's entering Freshman, it will mean little that Harvard is in the midst of change, for he never knew the old place. He will find few upperclassmen who remember when ... there were seven Houses full of civilians ... the House dining halls had waitresses and individual menus and unlimited seconds ... the CRIMSON was the CRIMSON ... the Lampoon was the Lampoon ... Varsity played Yale ... "Rinehart" was a cry to be reckoned with ... Freshmen lived in the Yard ... men in tweeds outnumbered men in khaki and Navy blue...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...
Home Front. In Des Moines, Kenneth Sonderleiter, proprietor of a lunch stand and a zoo, unable to get materials to build a winter house for his two lions, announced that his menus would soon offer lionburgers. In Manhattan, OPA went into action against a coal dealer whose fuel, added to any fire, managed to put it out. In Chicago, members of the Restaurant Association hopefully adopted a new plan to keep their waitresses happy-offered to send them through music school. In San Diego, OPA ordered rent reductions by a woman who had rented as living quarters her home...