Word: salade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the OPA caved in on restaurant prices for meat dishes, granted a 15% increase. Also upped: prices of oleomargarine, salad dressings and shortenings-at an estimated cost to U.S. consumers of about $5,000,000 a month...
...Left Ear Salad. Flagg's book is entitled Roses and Bucks'ot (Putnam;$3.75). The roses are reserved for himself and a multitude of boon and swoon companions; the buckshot flies in all directions...
...need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...
...book jacket emphasizes that Miss Howe was not originally a novelist, but a monologuist, spending her salad days barnstorming around the country before beginning as a writer. With two books under her belt, Miss Howe is presumably deemed a novelist. Actually, she has remained a monologuist. "We Happy Few" is not a novel, really, but a series of vignettes, all of which black out with a punch line. Many of these are very funny, and Miss Howe's satire bites deep, but wisecracks do not a novel make...
...single-minded in their effort to help the food saving plan would be the devious execution of the program by University officials closely connected with the dining halls. Showing no conception of the spirit of the campaign, they have included more costly, and sometimes superfluous fruit to substitute for salad at dessertless meals, and have absurdly insisted on offering margarine and jam when there is no bread. In contrast, higher administrative officials for the most part have cooperated to the fullest and have turned over to the Food Relief Committee the $2400 estimated in advance to be the dollar value...