Word: menu
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...food and other resources, paying with occupation marks of little value. 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...
...menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats, and numerous zoo animals, Germany last week added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food (TIME, July 15). A new law, effective Jan. 1, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalized as meat. After being inspected for trichina, their carcasses will be dressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers...
Hostess Chase's scripts are full of chitsy-chatsy on what the smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...
...sound of the air-raid siren." Calmly Murrow described the searchlights stabbing the 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...
...Although this year's diet served in the Union has been both qualitatively and quantitatively acceptable, it is agreed that the menu has suffered from a dearth of variety...