Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cookbook, 100 to Dinner (University of Toronto Press; $3.50), was an up-dater of a manual put together for service kitchens during the war, and it was badly needed. Raising the standard of Ontario resort cooking even to that of an army mess was a major operation. "Ontario," quipped a visitor to Toronto, "is as conservative gastronomically as it is politically. Eating is a dull pastime indeed, something to have and to have done with...
Since war's end, however, things seem to have been looking up again for M.R.A. At last year's World Assembly, 5,000 delegates held their sessions at an Alpine resort hotel the Buchmanites had newly purchased in Switzerland. In Los Angeles last week, Assembly delegates ate, slept and lounged in a brand-new seven-story local headquarters. "Buchmanism" never seems to worry about funds. But its sources of income, like the number of its converts, are matters that Buchmanites are vague about. Says Founder Frank Buchman solemnly: "Where God guides, God provides...
...overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
...future, a convention of resort operators and tourist officials decided in Lethbridge last week, Alberta would use the word "visitor" instead of the crassly commercial word "tourist...
...years Eddie Arcaro has ridden 11,868 races. He has won 2,223 of them. One reason why Eddie Arcaro is still at it (the average jockey lasts only four or five years) is that he seldom has to visit steam boxes to keep his weight down. Most jockeys resort to all the tricks, including taking cathartics, to lose weight, and sometimes lose their health as well...