Word: salads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-thirty. In only two of the Houses, as far as can be found, are there an appreciable number who take dinner between five-thirty and six; in all there are scores who regularly scurry in as near to seven as possible, and then are forced to bolt down salad, dessert and coffee, in abject submission to the impatience of the waitresses...
...visited up & down the Shenandoah Valley. His guides wanted to show the President the oldest and best but he was more interested in seeing the newest and least dressy. At Big Meadows he stopped to lunch with the woodsters. Menu: fried steak, string beans, mashed potatoes, iced tea. tomato salad, apple cobbler. Declared the President: "All you have to do is to look at you boys to see that the camps are a success. I wish I could take a couple of months off and live here myself. The only difficulty would be that you men have...
...Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years to the time his rich father, the late Henry Pomeroy Davison, avid angler and huntsman...
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was a Massachusetts farm boy and a Quaker, who lifted up his eyes to Parnassus and neighboring hills. Soon his poems began appearing in newspapers; he left the farm and took to journalism. Even in his salad days his poems were notable for their uprightness; he considered the age poisoned by the licentiousness of Byron and Shelley, and in later years was said to have hurled a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause...
...autographed photograph for a coronation gift.) The meal that followed was a difficult one. President Roosevelt's stomach was still bothering him. The Ras, a Coptic Christian, could eat no meat, milk or butter that day. Mrs. Henry Nesbit, White Housekeeper, served clams, fish, three vegetables, fruit salad, water biscuits, pineapple ice. The Prince passed up the clams. Next day was Emperor Haile Selassie's birthday. The President cabled him: ". . . My most hearty congratulations and best wishes. . . . It has been indeed a gratification and a sincere pleasure to receive His Highness the Ras Desta Demtu. . . . This visit will...