Word: spaghetti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spaghetti & Tea. But the voters were uninterested. A Harvard public-opinion expert made a study of the district, advised him to avoid world problems. As president of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (named after his dead brother), and as an American Legionnaire, he already had the wholehearted support of most veterans. His big job was to convince the 37 different nationalities in some of Boston's grimiest slums that he was not just the wealthy son of wealthy Joe Kennedy, former Ambassador to Britain...
Grace Coolidge, relict of the 29th President, kept a dinner engagement at the home of a Northampton, Mass, cobbler. As she presented pins to a class of nurses' aides, she had encountered a girl with an Italian name, promptly inquired whether the girl could cook spaghetti, soon got an invitation from the girl's parents. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the Sam Borrelli home in good time, departed 4½ hours later. "She ate slowly," reported Cobbler Borrelli...
...obviously been homesick for his native land, but when he got to his family home in the green Po Valley, he soon seemed homesick for the U.S. He sighed to friends of New York's climate and California's wines, and whispered wistfully over a dish of spaghetti: "But you should taste the spaghetti in the United States...
Contents of the package are 30 lbs. of powdered milk, 18 lbs. of lard, 12 large package of spaghetti, and 12 lbs. of spam-type canned meat...
...Diplomat." Waving his arms, "Butch" LaGuardia warned the foreign delegates of something they might not know: that he is "no diplomat." Cried he: "Protocol is off. ... I want plows, not typewriters. . . . Ticker tape ain't spaghetti. ... I want fast-moving ships...