Word: veg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war, Dr. Fleming went back to the peaceful laboratory and teaching routine which he still follows. He held classes, ate his lunch in St. Mary's gloomy refectory, where diners are served soup, "cut off the joint and two veg," rice pudding, prunes, and tea for one shilling sevenpence. Sometimes at the end of the day he went across from the hospital to The Fountains, a potted-palm pub in Praed Street, for a glass of beer before going home to spend the evening with his wife and son (now a medical student at St. Mary...
...Lambeth people had plenty to say about what they wanted after the war. A costermonger named Amy said it best. She wanted Lambeth Walk restored, and she had no desire to give up her fruit & "veg" business. She also wanted it understood that from now on her children and grandchildren were to have something more "on the Christmas tree [than] old clothes and boots and that sort of thing...