Word: roast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ward VIII is to the Prime Minister and executives of the British Empire almost a stranger - a singularly young-looking man of 41 whom they are accustomed to see pop in at a banquet, toy briefly with cold chicken washed down by Scotch & splash while others chomp the hot roast-beef of Old England, and then, after delivering a brief address...
...three Christmas stockings. The Lindberghs had paid the standard rate of $280 for two and a half one-way fares. It was reported that the Lindberghs would have a Christmas dinner of turkey with all the trimmings. It was reported that the Lindberghs would have a Christmas dinner of roast pork & applesauce. It was reported that the Lindberghs had been accompanied by three servants, by two servants, by no servants...
...Roast Pork & Applesauce...
...protest re your "Dead Hog & Roast Pork" in the Oct. 28 issue. Granting that one reader's roast pork is another's dead hog," '' don't you think the protests printed were nevertheless indicative of the fact that TIME does word things in such a way that biases may be inferred, though perhaps not intended? Your style is intended to be interesting, and is so, but I personally often feel that in the effort to be interesting, you go too far. We have only just started to take TIME regularly. I have read practically every...
...cancellation of my subscription I am brought to a pause by the discovery that you agree with me on so many points, and are consequently fair and unbiased, that I make haste to withdraw my cancellation. Let some of your correspondents recall that applesauce goes well with roast pork...