Word: roasts
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...About half the passengers usually eat in the diner. The other half buy food from the peasants and have picnic meals in their compartments. The peasants gather at the stations at train time with all kinds of cooked food for sale . . . good bread, golden honey, boiled milk, roast ducks and chickens...
...serge suits, or the plainest of frocks. The setting, a refurbished and resplendent palace, seemed like a coronet of gold and platinum studded with pebbles. The banquet menu, however, was less incongruous. Delicate appetizers, including three kinds of caviar, were followed by an exquisite bisque, then many a fish, roast game in abundance, a fragile salad, and fruits from every quarter of the Soviet Union, some fresh and some in syrup. Because the Afghans are Moslems and accordingly teetotalers, however, there was not served that profusion of vintage wines which enlivens typical Soviet banquets...
...theory being that the brain cells he used during business hours could take a rest while his speechmaking cells were active. By his own estimate, he addressed three banquets per week "in the season" for 50 years. It was his practice to skip all courses up to the roast when dining in public, and to drink champagne only...
...Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...
...Hugh Jaynes, for 31 years proprietor of the People's Meat Market of Pierre, presented the President with a buffalo roast. The roast was certified as pure and wholesome by Game Warden O. H. Johnson. Mr. Jaynes had previously given President Roosevelt a similar buffalo roast, remembered that President Roosevelt had expressed keen enjoyment of it. A cowpuncher also presented the President with 18 Chinese pheasants, hoped that they would be served at the first Custer Park meal. ¶Though making frequent car-end appearances at various brief stops, the President said hardly a word, left greeting-acknowledgments largely...