Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...digestion might have bothered me had I not been careful to eat the dinner just as I would have at home ... I experimented to find just what I could eat best. I soon determined to play with everything, but eat nothing except the roast and game courses. A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home...
...Both men have eaten their roast and game and have progressed to coffee and cigars...
Afterward everybody enjoyed a roast-chicken dinner and a ragtime ball...
...style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy personified, because Joe was the victim of chronic poisoning...
...women, mock turtle soup, roast chicken, ice cream...