Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie. Next day Milanese climbed out of their shelters to behold what seemed almost a miracle: the two side walls of the refectory had collapsed, but the north and south walls still stood-like playing cards on edge. The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, remained intact under the sandbags protecting the north wall...
Distribution of football tickets in the Houses and the Union went smoothly last night as the H.A.A.'s new ticket program completed its first week. The majority of 3,200 tickets sold to undergraduates were handed out at supper time. The rest will go out at noon today...
...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...
Also effected by the increase will be transient board prices. Supper will have a five-cent raise, going from $1.10 to $1.15, and lunch will be raised from eighty cents to eighty-five cents. Breakfast will be the only transient meal unchanged...
...down in 1945, Hirohito and Nagako have lived on the palace grounds in an unimpressive, unpretentious 14-room house that began its life as an airraid shelter. Each day they breakfast on oatmeal, toast and bacon, have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger drink...