Word: salade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left balcony!" The assistant there cries back: "I have a lady [or gentleman], Doctor!" The Doctor then intones: "Fifteen [or more or less] silver dollars to that lady if she can tell me whether the period between early June and early September is known as salad days...
...That Lady!" If the contestant misses, Doctor I.Q.'s voice drops to a consoling "Oh, I'm so sorry, but I think you'll find salad days are those of youthful inexperience. But a box of Milky Way candy bars [consolation prize] to that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took...
...plane had blue "Draft Dewey" stickers in the windows. Also aboard were Mrs. Dewey, Advisers Paul Lockwood, Jim Hagerty, Elliott Bell, Hickman Powell, and a handful of reporters and radiomen. Flying west, Tom Dewey put the finishing touches to his acceptance speech, ate a quick dinner of grilled steak, salad and coffee...
Pacific, with a gourmet's enthusiastic attention to detail, described a new dish called "millionaires' salad," - a culinary triumph consisting solely of palm hearts soaked in vinegar...
...General Eisenhower inspected huge, noisy "Willow Run." the mass-production officers' mess in London's swank Grosvenor House. Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria. In due course he collected pork, potatoes, spinach and salad...