Word: smorgasbord
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a smorgasbord luncheon at the Viking Club, members of the cast of "Victoria Regina", now playing at the Shubert, and the Harvard Dramatic Club yesterday drove to the grounds of the Metropolitan Cricket Club at Newton Centre for a much anticipated cricket match; a match narrowly but fairly won by the Harvard undergraduates...
...oeuvre was not even a part of kitchen curriculum. They were prepared by the butler in private homes and by the more experienced waiters in hotels and restaurants. The custom of serving tasty bits as preliminary to dinner started in Russia where they were called "Zakouski" and with the "Smorgasbord" of the Scandinavian countries, where the guests eat and drink them standing-and in a room apart from the dining room, later spreading to France, Italy and Spain. PETER BORR...
...metre boats are to sailing what smorgasbord is to the dinner table: a Scandinavian specialty. Marconi-rigged, almost twice the size of a Star boat and a quarter that of an America's Cup yacht, they cost about $10,000 each. Almost every Norwegian fiord contains a fleet of them. In the U. S., they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series...