Word: salad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club held its first meeting of the year, lunched, as usual, on a meal prepared by some of its members. For the main course, Mrs. William Warren Barbour, pretty wife of New Jersey's senior Senator, brought in chicken salad. Said she: "I made it myself. I know it's good." At 1 o'clock the hostesses tied name cards around their necks, began serving, soon found that they had underestimated their guests' appetites. First to go was Mrs. Barbour's chicken salad. While a score of lunchers held...
...Grandfather Morgan had invited four of his own associates. All over the house prowled detectives to keep out "crashers" and newshawks. In the library Physick, the Morgan Butler, presided proudly over the first big entertainment since Mrs. Morgan died nine years before. At 9:30 Host Morgan nibbled lobster salad, sausages & scrambled eggs, then retired to be seen no more. After that a Hungarian orchestra played slow stately fox trots, with two waltzes, several tangoes. At 1 o'clock the last guests filed out. At 1:15 Physick dimmed the lights...
...onetime shoe-clerk, dancing master and salad oil salesman, Al Munro Elias became a baseball statistician in 1914. Sick with indigestion, he took time off from work to watch ball games, amused himself by reducing them to figures. His first successful venture as a professional was a series of pamphlets sold in saloons, men's stores and hotels. The New York Evening Telegram soon began to buy his figures. In 1917, the National League made Al Munro Elias its statistician. Fourteen years ago he began to supply papers with his most famed daily feature : the leading batters...
...Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
However you may feel about it, "Freshmen, on the whole, spurn salads. But upperclassmen demand two salads a day, sometimes eating a large salad as a main course." It is surely all very interesting. Especially, if we may repeat, the perfectly truthful little statement that "Tomato juice is in great demand...