Word: stew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheap food is cheaper, easier to find, in more places. Adequate lunch at a place with tablecloths: 75?. Prize food buy for the thrifty was at the new 5 and 10 Cent Restaurant (10? items: spaghetti, pork chops, beef stew, meat loaf). (Said a tough Manhattan moppet on opening day: "Five cents for meatballs! They should give us hamburgers!"). Hamburgers cost...
...when a masterful director like Alfred Hitchcock and actors as capable as Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine do their best to make a tencent novelette plot credible, they produce an unwonted effect--that of serving cold stew on a golden platter. Hollywood's skillful technique has given a backneyed melodrama a chance to excite once again...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
...McClure and Stew Pach stand a fair chance of sweeping the butterfly 200 for the Tigers, but Waldron will be plugging for a Crimson second. If the contest is swum at all according to form, Cutler and his mates will have around 21 points to Princeton's 28 going into the 440. In this event, Ulen will probably withdraw Rick, saving him to bolster Harvard's already favored 400-yard relay team, thus virtually guaranteeing his men the seven final points which, added to whatever Ed Hewitt and Torpedo Van Vort can collect in the 171/2 lap grind, will place...
...Paced by Stew Meyarholz, a classy Princeton heep team proved too much for the Crimson Sophomors quistet, gaining a 30-24 decisios...