Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplement a Press conference, the President gave his annual Hyde Park picnic to correspondents. There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing. The feast included roast ham, salad, pie, coffee. On a little charcoal grill placed before him, the President prepared the picnic frankfurters...
...from wartime conditions: the menus for three meals a day for the duration of the maneuvers were printed by the Quartermaster Corps in a 41-page booklet. These included such items as oranges, milk, fresh eggs, cucumber salad, sliced peaches, corn on the cob, Rice Krispies, fish, ice cream, roast pork, potato salad, etc. Wherever possible farmers were hired to haul away garbage. Where soldiers had to bathe in creeks more than 5 ft. deep (two baths a week required) life guards were provided. Also 150 Army officer umpires were on hand to wave little red and white flags...
...with pointing-machines, chisels, mallets, electric drills and the casting foundry. As many as 100 men are sometimes employed. In old clothes and square paper caps, the five brothers hammer and laugh, shout and sing arias from opera. At noon Attilio or a "Tuscan gentlewoman" named Clementina cooks the roast, spaghetti or chicken, uncorks the Vesuvian wine and the five & guests sit down for a noisy, two-hour meal. Horatio usually washes the dishes afterward. All talk well, laugh easily. Frequent guests at these Renaissance meals are New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who calls Attilio "Uncle Peach...
...Veal Leg and rump .29 .24 Breast .19 .14 Shoulder .24 .16 Cutlets .45 .39 Beef Rib roast .34 .24 Sirloin roast .42 .32 Chuck with bone .31 .21 Porterhouse steak .50 .44 Sirloin steak .41 .36 Round steak .42 .33 Chuck steak...
Baron Aloisi went back to the table with small appetite for the roast. Doing his best, Capt. Eden arranged to keep the League Council in session on the Abyssinian question for a week if necessary. Meanwhile Pierre Laval got a call from headquarters: Things were going very badly at home. Crowds were nervous. Everything pointed to the fall of the Flandin Cabinet when parliament reopened early this week. The Foreign Minister had better hurry home. The last train for Paris left at 10:45 p.m. What time was it now? Nearly 9 o'clock. Mon Dieu...