Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place a huge pork roast was the kingpin of the fare. What if it were not thoroughly done? Those Michigan boys are too excited to care. Many ate, tearing at the flesh, gulping it with oversweet coffee. At the game the Illinois and Michigan elevens lined up. Whistle. Plop! The kickoff. In ten minutes "Red" Grange made four touchdowns. The Michigan spectators felt sickish. More kickoffs. Touchdowns for this team, for that. Loud and long the cheers. Here and there someone on the Michigan stands grimaced. His stomach griped him. Pork is a heavy thing to eat, burdensome when...
Nine families could not stomach the exotic roast. Sixteen families reported having enjoyed their meal to the utmost. The Government was elated. "That was a tough old bull," said officials. "All would have relished tender calf meat." Experiments continued upon...
...bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts of roast duck, bouillabaisse and champagne, while the coin is counted...
Before a great company of notables the new Steinway Hall, Manhattan, was opened last week. Willem Mengelberg conducted 35 Philharmonic players through the tonal roast beef of Beethoven's "Dedication of the House"; Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...
...restaurants and the Union reported a record breaking consumption of salads, feed drinks and other hot weather delicacies. Hot roast beef and soup were on the menu but the waiters declared that hardly anyone ordered them. The chief complaint of the waiters was that they were kept too busy filling the glasses of ice water which were emptied almost as fast as they were filled...