Word: meats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Despite this questionable victory for the undergraduates, Harvard students are today as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against the practice of serving horse meat in Commons
...London sky, the muted traffic, the shelter beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry, who remarked: "I'm very happy to say hello to my friends . . . and to tell them we are well and food is plentiful. The war has not affected my cooking...
When madcap, publicity-wise Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter, arrived in Manhattan last year, he declared: "I used to balance two broiled chops on my wife's shoulders, and then by observing the movement of tiny shadows produced by the accident of the meat on the flesh of the woman I love when the sun was setting, I was finally able to attain images sufficiently lucid and appetizing for exhibition in New York." Last week, when Painter Dali and his wife debarked at Jersey City, he announced that he was "a reformed and much more conservative...
Ever since Adolf Hitler began redeeming minorities, Rumania has been meat for partitioning. The country was one of the most spectacular gainers after World War I. It is dotted like the Indies with islands -of foreigners. Big and solid islands are the Bulgarian minority in Dobruja and a Hungarian minority in southeast Transylvania, almost at dead centre of the country. Ten years ago the Rumanians admitted minorities of 1,425,000 Hungarians, 740,000 Germans, 725,000 Jews, 575,000 Ruthenians, 415,000 Russians, 315,000 Bulgarians, 290,000 Turks, 275,000 Gypsies...
...Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...