Word: salad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life in the Navy. As for Miss Mac, she lives alone-in a studio apartment in Washington. She does only what cooking is necessary. "It was a major event in my life when I learned to make a tossed salad." She reads herself to sleep. Her social life is moderately paced...
...Governor's ancient mansion. There, in the small family dining room, over a centerpiece of snapdragons and mimosa, Democrat Ed Kelly and Republican Dwight Green sat down to lunch. The menu was keyed to Ed Kelly's delicate stomach: consommé madrilene, cheese soufflé, green salad, fruit compote and coffee. It was not their first meeting, but it was the first time they had talked together officially since Dwight Green became Governor four years ago. Lunch lasted two hours, after which Mayor and Governor greeted newsmen...
...Room. Also inside streamed 2,000 invited guests, for luncheon. It was the biggest reception of the twelve Roosevelt years in the White House, but it was also spare. The President had wanted chicken á la king. But he was overruled by the housekeeper, who settled for chicken salad. The rest of the lunch: hard rolls without butter, unfrosted pound cake, coffee...
...soon as the Japanese had been driven from Florida Island, the Bishop returned, opened a new episcopal palace-a leaf hut built on the ruined foundation of the mission warehouse. There he kept open house for servicemen. The No. 1 refreshment, prepared by the Bishop in person : fresh-fruit salad...
...Washington's Statler Hotel were gathered the elite of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, and the elite of the city's political society-assorted czars, administrators and politicians. They were met together to eat roast chicken, Virginia ham, peas, potato croquettes, salad, ice cream and coffee, to drink California sauterne and, more important, to get an answer to the biggest of the Democrats' political questions: has The Old Master still...