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...great leader to have during the blitz. His personality was all roast beef and there was something of the thick British fog in the voice that uttered the inspiring words. When Winston Churchill donned his flat-topped bowler and walked among the bomb craters, the people felt that they were seeing the very image of a modern, improved, but deeply traditional and indomitable John Bull. His crusty vigor also suggested the coat of mail of a new St. George, fronting the snorting dragon, Hitler ("that wicked...
...party moved into the dining room. The White House gold-and-silver service flashed in the noon sun. Tables were spread with platters of jellied salmon, jellied vegetable rings, hot chicken sandwiches, roast beef, a mountainous wedding cake frosted with signs of the Zodiac, doves and a big American eagle. Corks popped from magnums of champagne. President Roosevelt made a little speech...
Well might Congressmen worry. Some letters and telegrams had ten or 20 signatures. Small-town forums gathered to roast their representatives. Some of the letters criticized the President too: The public is weary of so much talk from the White House and so little action...
Ralph Delair stayed in the fields until the sun had sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
During the past year the Freshman Union and the House Dining Halls together consumed 30,000 gallons of ice-cream. Furthermore, Westcott has ordered from various neighboring wholesalers during this season an average for each week of about seven tons of potatoes, over a ton of roast beef, a ton of lamb, and 48 crates of mushrooms...