Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...German soldiers get double rations. But even with all the food taken from Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France, the average German eats what in the U. S. would not be considered good prison fare. Sample menu: for breakfast, ersatz coffee and bread; for lunch, soup, a hot dish, meat three days a week; for supper, open sandwiches. Last week, German fishermen were ordered to attend to business, to fish the streams and lakes leased by the Reich's Amateur Fishermen's Association with nets and eel baskets instead of with...
...poor old Pop (George "Gabby" Hayes), the good, grizzled, granddaddy of the town, has all but given up hope for happy days again. When Gene is slapped around by the Wildhacks, Pop has to take him out to Melody Ranch for some western air and exercise before Gene can dish out the necessary retribution...
...offer a few bright spots in an otherwise dull picture. Just as clever but not nearly so frank as in Gypsy Rose Lee's World Fair show, the two funsters show good Hollywood possibilities. The program as a whole, though, is a fair side order and a poor main dish...
...strike-breaking breed in the country, has demonstrated how investigations can be handled by an intelligent, competent and hard-working group more interested in facts than in headlines. Its well-documented reports, filed with the proper authorities, contrast strikingly with the ill-founded alarums filling Dies' daily dish to the press boys. If Congress could find a man closer to the calibre of LaFollette to run the committee tracking down saboteurs, and if it would at the same time limit that committee's work to points of genuine danger, something more satisfactory than truths everyone knows and half-truths...
...Corizza (see map, p. 21}) was on the point of falling as the week began, was still about to fall as it ended. The reason for the delay was simple: Corizza lies in the centre of a bowl of mountains. The Greeks could not rush down into the dish until they had patiently stormed the entire rim, or else the Italians would do to them just what they had been doing to the Italians. This week Athenian reports claimed Corizza partly...