Word: beefsteak
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...British have 15) is more numerous and harder-working than that of any other Embassy. Having observed the lobbying tactics of fellow-Washingtonians, shrewd Hirosi Saito spends most of his Embassy allowance for "representation" not on balls and champagne for Washington socialites but on highballs and beefsteak suppers for the Press. When he makes a speech it gets printed. When hospitable wags of the Kenwood Golf Club gave him a two-ounce bottle of whiskey marked "A Year's Supply," adding the gift of five toy battleships, not only did Washington columnists recount the hilarity at length but even...
...applies a freshly made 5% solution of tannic acid with cotton swabs. Then he immediately sponges the entire area with a 10% solution of silver nitrate. Almost instantly the silver nitrate forms a thin leathery surface over the wounds, much as a hot oven sears the outside of a beefsteak and thereby confines its juice...
Perfectly good Japanese today are such words as "club" (see p. 51), "kodak," "beefsteak" (pronounced bifteki) and the whole argot of baseball from "foul" to "home run." Compared to Chinese, Japanese are atrocious linguists but keep patiently plugging. Often one will sit down beside a foreigner with the bland request: "Can I talk to you so I can improve my English...
...Manhattan and announced that candy sales for 1934's first four months were 28% better than in 1933. U. S. citizens were again eating an average of a pound of candy apiece every month. Candyman William F. Heide gloated, "The time when people were content to get beefsteak and potatoes has definitely come...
Candy is not as simple as beefsteak & potatoes. It comes in fancy trademarked packages, in plain packages, by the pound, by the piece and, most important of all, by the bar. It is sold from dusty bins in crossroads general stores, across immaculate counters in swank city candy shops, by slot machines, by drug stores, by department stores, by grocery stores, by stationery stores, by restaurants, by hot-dog stands, by newsstands, by filling stations, even by blacksmith shops. For these retail outlets some 1,000 wholesale candy makers, of which hardly 400 are national, scrabble endlessly, hope their products...