Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mothers have been frankly worried about the vitamin-deficient meals ever since we were first confined, and have had to supplement our diet with purchases from the outside, of meat, butter, eggs and fruit, which have never been adequate. It might interest you to know that our supper tonight consisted of a bowl of sweetened bean soup, which most Nisei do not like, two pieces of vinegared beets and two slices of pickled radish. Tea and rice completed the meal...
...prunes served him, 82% of the scrambled eggs, drinks 71% of the coffee. Most eating is done at noon, 92% as much is done at breakfast, only 68% as much at evening. There is little dawdling at table. Breakfast takes about 18½ minutes, noon dinner 19¼, supper...
Results. Scherwin's survey, made on orders from Major General Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General, recommended that cooks cease preparing meals to feed the number of men at the morning roll call. He found absenteeism at dinner and supper often ran as high as 20%. Reasons: mild illness, eating at post exchanges, anxiety to get away early on leave. By allowing for absentees, the Army hopes to cut $119,000,000 from its annual food bill, which in 1943 will be about $1,250,000,000. Other savings may be made by eliminating wastage that Scherwin uncovered...
Bright spot of the trip was a ride to Cleveland with "a very pretty girl," which developed into a free supper, a dance at which he squandered most of his remaining funds, and lodgings for the night at her home. "They were an exceedingly nice family." Marden said reservedly...
...affair will begin with a supper at 5:30 o'clock in Agassiz, followed by a Choral Society presentation and cowboy and Mexican dancing by the Radcliffe Dancing Group at 7 o'clock. The Idlers and several Harvard men will present at 8:30 o'clock in Agassiz, an act from Noel Coward's "Family Album...