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Word: slaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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