Word: nutmegs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customs, previously unknown and first revealed by this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
...critics to have founded and vastly stimulated the whole Futurist school, Poet Marinetti leaves others to carve, paint and sketch (see cut) while he pioneers. In tactile sensation Dr. Marinetti adventures by turning out all the lights and reveling with his disciples in the feel cheese crinkled paper, pearls, nutmeg graters, alabaster, jade...
...fortifier, Tom & Jerry. The Examiner front-paged Dr. Geiger's recipe: "Whole egg and sugar, thoroughly beaten, about one tablespoon of sugar being used for each egg, a certain liquid added to the proper consistency and taste and then hot milk added to the mixture with nutmeg.*. . . The particular food product that should be stressed is hot milk in cold weather. ... It helps build up protection against colds. . . . "Just before retiring is a good time for hot milk. You take a glass of hot milk, sip slowly, then make one last readjustment of the pillows, snap out the light...
...Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which has its annex on the Cote d'Or, and which...
...cities like Bridgeport and New Haven and some of the little ones like Danbury. But by the opening of hunting season the Republican workers were telling each other, with even more confidence than after the Smith scare of 1928, that there was no crevice in the Wooden Nutmeg. The nippy dawn of Nov. 5 beheld a vast amount of head-scratching and shoulder-shrugging among Republican nutmeggers when they heard over their radios the first figure of its kind in years: a 3,000-vote majority for Travels with a Donkey...