Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...
...Soup Stew. In Manhattan, harried Restaurateur Raymond Andrieux, trying to please everybody, changed his Vichyssoise to De Gaulloise, then to Giraudoise, finally to Françoise, distractedly announced: "If this proves unsatisfactory I shall call it Cordell Hulloise...
There are authentic scenes as well: Francie and her brother collecting junk in the Brooklyn slums; purchases of five-cent soup bones, stale bread and smashed pies; the traditional childhood customs and mores of the Brooklyn streets. Example: storekeepers on Christmas Eve tossed their unsold trees at children; if the children stood upright under the impact of a tree, they could have it free...
...Special pockets will be obtained for soup and other sloppy dishes...
...looked with disgust at her new gang of ragged, dirty farm hands. Her overseer gave tongue to a "wide gamut of howls." He wanted huskier help. For six months Painter Hélion and his mates lived on the lowest level of Nazi serfdom. They ate potato soup, potato-and-rye bread, cold potato dessert; their stomachs swelled with potato gas. By day they frantically dug potatoes side by side with peasants. Sometimes peasant children sneaked under the threshing machines, voraciously foraged for rye seeds. When the empty barrels of potato schnaps came back to the farm, the peasants emptied...