Word: salad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day at 8 a.m. Davis was back. He laid his camping equipment on the sidewalk and got ready for a siege. Presently le panier a salade (the paddy wagon; literally, salad basket) picked him up and hauled him off to the mairie (town hall) of the sixth arrondissement. There he talked things over with urbane André Michel, commissaire of the arrondissement. The conversation went like this...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...
Diplomatic Salad Dressing...
...would like to point out to you that, as in every good salad dressing, the proportion of vinegar and oil must be calculated with exactitude and balance. In this article your reporter appears to have been rather frivolous in the use of both these elements, converting a dream into a nightmare...
Parents smilingly held children up to see him; schoolgirls giggled nervously. A middle-aged man in a grey kimono lustily waved a frayed pith helmet, a relic of the army's Pacific salad days, while tears coursed from his eyes. A gnarled old woman stared fixedly, saying over & over in a choked voice, "li des-it is good." The react! ~n. had been the same in farming villages, coal mines, industrial areas-wherever the glossy, chrysanthemum-decked imperial train chugged...