Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strict accordance with this theory should a dinner culminate with chimpanzee for dessert, or is the descent of men ordinarily more than sufficiently illustrated at the end of a club dinner...
...Dessert, English Plum Pudding, Apples, Grapes, Banana...
...Dessert...
...Memorial should, therefore, try to cater in some degree to the changed tastes of his boarders and should provide a different menu in some respects. But we find the same old bill of fare that we have had all winter still continued, with its heavy meats and solid desserts. Some change ought certainly to be made. Many men would willingly dispense with certain articles of fare if these were replaced by delicacies or relishes more peculiar to the season. For instance, if instead of the hot soup, the interminable boiled cod and two kinds of heavy, greasy meats, there were...
...friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form boys breakfast in their own rooms, as they do afterwards when they enter the universities. . . . The boys of each house dine together in a common hall; no soup; roast beef or mutton, bread and dessert of 'sweets.' The school provides each boy with beer; wines are not allowed. There is a very simple tea at six, and supper of bread and cheese and, I believe, cold meat, if one wants it, before going...