Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes of the Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms dairies, their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer, ordered Captain John H. Turner to return...
...some leftover picnic boxes had been sent, treated a score of veterans who had eaten before being warned. That night more than 150 excursionists slept in hospitals, some 200 others were recovering at home. Food Poisoning- Washington's hospitals recorded the cases as "ptomaine poisoning." Physicians blamed the potato salad and deviled eggs, which had been prepared the night before. It was the second wholesale case of poisoning from potato salad within the week. At Massillon, Ohio, 200 delegates to the Ohio State Communist convention collapsed in a hall after eating salad prepared in a galvanized tub. More than...
...potoroo is considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
...Cagney always does his best sparring against his leading ladies and in this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells...
...Field's recipe: "I cut the chicken up in usual pieces and stew it slowly in water until it's tender. I season it well with salt, pepper and a little paprika. I add one onion, one potato, one turnip, one pound of cabbage, one half pound of carrots and two ounces of rice. Then I cook it for another hour or so, adding 1 more or less water. Generally I pick the chicken off the bones and break it up before adding the vegetables, so it will be mixed all through...