Word: salade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first sight of the first baby brought loud awkward delight to many a young veteran like American Volunteer Group Flyer John Hennesy, who first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes...
Algin is a colloidal material of the sugar family, itself edible, but principally used as an emulsifying agent in salad dressings, chocolate-milk drinks, ice cream, where it serves to stabilize the intimate mixture of oil or solids in water and to give a smooth texture. Buttermilk, cakes, icings, candy and even tooth paste are smoothed by a fraction of 1% of algin. It is extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike...
Undergraduates, as occasional guests, are agreeably surprised and satisfied by the food. The members receive for lunch, which costs them 35 cents, meat, three vegetables, unlimited bread and butter, coffee and milk, and dessert. At dinner, for which the members pay 50 cents, soup and salad are added. Featuring the meals is the milk, which comes from Government Professor Carl J. Friedrich's dairy...
...CASTLE ON THE HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...