Word: salads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butter, 6 Vegetable Salad...
...present fortune, but he leaves the reader feeling comfortably reassured that his hero's virtue has brought not only its own reward but a few extra dividends as well. Author Merwin reveals few intimate details of the inner Liggett, but those few shed their little beams. In his salad days Liggett once took a girl to dinner at a restaurant, faced artichoke for the first time. When the waiter saw that he was painfully swallowing each leaf he tactfully interposed, got a rebuff for his pains. Said Liggett: "You'd better mind your own business. I always...
...salad days Mrs. Henderson had a court painter of her own, a crippled Civil War veteran named Lucien Whiting Powell. Seventy-six original Powells were in the sale last week. His widow got two of them for $60 apiece, another...
...worried la'st week. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited the Chautauqua Women's Club to lunch. As they began to arrive-Carrie Chapman Catt leaning on a cane, others in wheel chairs-Whitehousekeeper Nesbitt hastily ordered more dishes brought up, telephoned caterers for more paper napkins, ham, potato salad, buns, pickles, coffee, ice cream. In the East Room the great gold piano, suitably covered, was used as a serving table for angel cake. Mrs. Roosevelt carried a stool into the State Dining Room, mounted it and told the gathering: "I have been very much encouraged by the number...
After the concert Yehudi had a birthday supper with his family and a few close friends. When he had gobbled his chicken salad and his ice cream & cake he was dispatched to bed. Two days later, for a special treat, he was taken to see In the Pasha's Garden...