Word: salade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedient. Amusing but aggravating is the rule which prevents any member of Leverett House from leaving high table until all is over unless he has a college appointment. At the first of these festivities last night one member of the house wanted to leave early. He arose after the salad course. At the door he was asked whether he had a college appointment or a "date" with a lady. He had the latter. So he was sent back to his seat...
...week. "Everything that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...
...Coogan the chef has been with the College 20 years. Of the modern equipment that he uses there are six special refrigerators, and a refrigerating plant that freezes 3750 pounds of ice in ten hours. In addition there are electric dishwashers, waffle irons, toasters, hydraulic elevators, steam plate warmers, salad and plate coolers, four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper...
...first ten days of Spring and Fall showings are secret affairs, by invitation only. Prior to this there are even more exclusive Private Views, with champagne and salad at the bigger & better houses, a custom begun in 1921. Jean Patou, as every schoolgirl knows, has an elaborate modernistic cocktail bar, free to customers, favored friends and to all comers admitted to an Opening. To Jean Patou first flocked last week's observers...
...President's hostess had owned no slaves, that she herself had hired the old negro for this occasion, the other ladies of the city were indignant. Before that, they said, she had paraded an adopted baby as her own and a Louisiana woman, member of a family of salad dressing makers, as a famed French novelist...