Word: soups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonders if Lillian Harrison demands ice cream and soup after swimming. Last week Lillian swam the river Plate for the first time in history. Starting from Uruguay she navigated obliquely 30 miles (in 24 hrs. 19 min.) to the Argentine shore...
...cigarette smoking among New York girls, I had never seen it so prevalent in public. And I saw there what I never saw here-girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup and were obliged to make up again between courses...
Germans who accept our bowl of Quaker Soup with a " bitter chuckle...
...water is only meted out to those who assault their fellow immigrants (a Negro was the only one so treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...
...spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like...