Word: ambrosia
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Gods have ambrosia for breakfast. Kings, presumably, have tarts. Presidents, New England Presidents, have whole-wheat and whole-rye cereal. This was the breakfast order that President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...
Muse, thy song of bright heroes is ended. A stein of ambrosia, Muse...