Word: salad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacrifice dinner," all students ate only spaghetti and salad for supper in place of the regular meat menn as a means of raising funds to provide tuition, board, room, and all incidental expenses for Miss de Voross next year...
Radcliffe dormitory students will down spaghetti and salad tonight in place of the regular Wednesday night meat-and-vegetables dinner in order to save money for the freshman Displaced Persons scholarship fund...
...four, playing their positions carefully and conserving energy, were hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
Cabled the New York Herald Tribune's old China Hand A. T. ("Arch") Steele: "These [Communists] no longer are the same easily approachable people they were during the salad days at Yenan . . . No foreigner here has succeeded in meeting any [important] Communist . . . What is not clear is how much this [standoffishness] is a calculated policy...