Word: soups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, with rather poor taste?a failing of the Marlboroughs?he read the menu, gloated pseudo-maliciously over the fact that cocktails went with hors d'oeuvres, sherry with the soup, sauterne with the fish, red wine with the entree, champagne with the chicken, port for toasts to the King and President, brandy with the coffee...
...tableware that trembled, if ever so slightly, as a famed express sped towards Chicago, they whispered about a certain passenger. There he sat, slim, blond, eating-for breakfast, two apples, a triple helping of oatmeal, a big cup of coffee, three slices of buttered toast; for lunch, vegetable soup, roast beef, sweet potatoes, rolls, two cups of coffee, vanilla ice cream. He was Paavo Nurmi, on his way from Manhattan to compete in the Illinois A. C. handicap meet. The famed express ended its run, the passenger, well-fed, well-rested...
...Herbert Evans, of the University of California, gives us pause. We have attained our full growth, and we are fairly well satisfied, on the average, with our size. But if Dr. Evans can get unobserved to our collective dinner table and slip some of his new discovery into our soup, we shall become a nation of Goliaths Dr. Evans can quite literally make mountains out of molehills...
Some of the gaiety was taken out of the French Capital by a sudden and unprecedented fall from the sky of what was graphically described as a "pea-soup...
...annual disrespectfulnesses of the Washington newspaper correspondents. President Coolidge was led to a seat next the Club's president, William E. Brigham. Most of the President's Cabinet was scattered through the throng, all regardless of rank. Ambassadors passed the salt to Senators. Senators hobnobbed over their soup with the men who write, and who sometimes rip, them up from day to day. Bankers and ballplayers, Bandmaster Sousa, Governors Smith of New York and Cox of Massachusetts, publishers aplenty?all in the flesh, eating and laughing and talking...