Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were given the privilege of staging the executions of flyers captured in their bivouac areas. On at least two occasions the livers of the executed men were served in the officers' messes while strips of flesh cut from the legs were used to flavor enlisted men's soup...
...every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...
...weak Protestant competition as a U.S. plot for domination of Mexico, financed by lavish quantities of gringo gold. Said one priest last week: Protestant missionaries, who have been dispensing medicine, clothing, etc., are like the British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they do it in the U.S. instead of Mexico, which...
England's moat was back to the ways of peace; the Channel swimmer was on the job again. Last week a 6-ft., 225-lb. Chilean named Jorge Berroeta set out to swim the English Channel. He gulped some of his secret-formula soup, a recipe he hides from his trainer, Georges Michel, who set the Channel record in 1926. Then he plunged into the icy water at Cap Gris Nez, bound for Dover...
Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...