Word: oatmealization
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...children, ten servants) its model for large families. Mrs. Roosevelt, who turned over to her daughter when she married the account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they...
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where Vassar girls nibble oatmeal crackers in the restaurant in which the Smith Brothers boiled their first coughdrops, has one great day of sport each year. Eight of the best college crews in the U. S. were at Poughkeepsie last week preparing for it. M. I. T. and Pennsylvania were considered "dark horses," that is, feeble, until Rusty Callow's Penn boat rowed a fast time trial two days before the race. Preparing to defend their championship under a new coach named Buck Walsh, Navy's oarsmen spent an afternoon at Kingston, 15 miles away, watching...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
Those two investigators fed healthy students and hospital patients roast beef, hamburger (Liberty) steak, beefsteaks, stewed beef, boiled corned beef, dried beef and bologna sausage. They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables. And immediately after each meal, 'they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress...
That squash pie? They make it lousy here. Fifteen cents? Why you can get a bigger piece at the Georgian for a dime. Yeah, a lot bigger. Better, too. This here tastes like oatmeal. Don't you eat there any more? I used to, too. The fellow got sore one time, though. I was balancing a glass of milk on my knife blade and it spilled all over somebody's lap and they kicked...