Word: salade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of five "unity" dinners for Democratic Congressmen at Washington's plush Mayflower Hotel. The idea: to woo back into line Southerners and others who have strayed over to the opposition. Groups of 40 to 50 Congressmen were invited to each of the dinners, at which the salad will be mixed with solid talk about party solidarity in election year...
...During the latter stage of the war Americans were laughed at by their allies for the fruit salad on their chests. Without hearing a shot fired, a man could, by arranging his area ribbons, marksmanship medals, cheap commendations and awards, appear in the eyes of the uninitiate as a combination Sergeant York-Commando Kelly...
Sweet Dream. In Monessen, Pa., Sergeant Eddie Hughes's foxhole fantasy became a fact: a banana split consisting of two quarts of ice cream, one quart of fruit salad, ten bananas and proportionate applications of marshmallow, whipped cream, chocolate, pineapple and cherries...
...Second breakfast with his wife and daughter at 8 a.m. (fruit, toast, bacon, milk and coffee); lunch (soup and salad) with his family; afternoon swim in the White House pool; then the long pull to 7 p.m. and the family dinner (steak and baked potatoes, if possible...
...lunched at King's house, on lobster, filet mignon, asparagus salad, raspberries a la mode. At Earnscliffe, stately home of British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald, he talked with Canadian Socialist Leader M. J. Coldwell. If they did more than exchange niceties, they kept it to themselves. At night there were Scotch highballs and more food-oysters, roast turkey, baked Alaska-at a state dinner at the swank Country Club...