Word: salad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judges to arrive was Mr. Lawrence Dame, art critic of the Boston Herald and by the time the second member of the panel, an editor of the CRIMSON, had been led to the table, Mr. Dane was adequately ensconced behind a glass of dry sherry and an Avocado salad. The Crimeditor ordered "some Scotch, never mind the food...
Toasted in Absence. At 9 o'clock the Foreign Ministers, each with ten members of his staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay...
...money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the stepchild treatment that withheld paper and press time from Town & Country in favor of other Hearst magazines. Instead, his bosses threatened to give Town & Country a mixed-salad section of architecture, interior and exterior (cosmetics) decorating. Now they are free to do it, and Harry Bull is free to write a book about a town-&-countryman's New York...
Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...
Between bites of roast turkey, candied sweet potatoes and lettuce salad, they licked happy lips over the words of National Chairman B. Carroll Reece: "The verdict of the people in the recent election constituted a directive to both the legislative and executive branches." In effect, Carroll Reece was telling the President: get along with the G.O.P. or else...