Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bums in Manhattan's dreary, beery Hell's Kitchen seldom visited the Community Mission. The Mission - two big, bare-walled rooms on the street floors of two houses on West 40th Street - offered the thinnest of soup and sermons. But scores of Hell's Kitchen kids found it a charming place. Every afternoon they were invited inside to play. There were always comic books in the hymnal box; nobody objected if small fry yelled in the gospel hall or rolled empty garbage cans along the front sidewalk...
...unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton's men east of Bastogne...
...cracker with soup," queried Morley across the roaring Atlantic, "took some kale and landed in stir, what was going on?" Banker Auburn knew that a cracker was a Georgian, knew that kale was cash, and that stir was jail, but guessed that soup was also money. Corrected Professor Brogan happily: "High explosive for opening banks...
...Trumans have been guests at Mrs. McLean's before, but not the guests of honor. Mrs. McLean's parties are different now. She serves California wine, usually a clear soup, frequently skips the fish course. The Trumans like cards and music, so there will be bridge. Pianist Evelyn Tynor will play, and Tenor Lauritz Melchior will be there...
After the soldiers came the civilians. They picked their way through ruins and roadblocks, in search of food ,and firewood. In the first days of peace, soup kitchens served 320,000 meals to hungry Athenians. Against the wall of a hotel an old man leaned as though asleep. He had been dead five days...