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...Incidentally, it may interest you to learn that the Nazi Party is a genuinely red party, as you can understand from the foreign correspondent's gag, about its "The Nazl Party we call the 'beefsteak party brown outside, red inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Frank Pease, a Violent Railer Against Hanfstaengl Can't Be Located | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...would think him old enough to have learned not to take himself seriously. But, alas, he seems to feel in his way-down-deepmost soul that he has a personality, and likewise--or therefore--a message for humanity. That personality is composed of seven children, a penchant for beefsteak and good liquor, and the capacity to take pleasure in reading. One regrets, when reading "After the Great Companions," that he chose to discourse on literature and progeny rather than on food and drink; but no doubt he will sooner or later favor the world with a volume entitled...

Author: By T. B. Oc, | Title: The CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/24/1934 | See Source »

...ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was just experimenting and wanted to find out. Recent dinner guests at the executive mansion have reported frankfurters as the entrée. "I should be most unhappy," says Eleanor Roosevelt, ''if I could not buy new books, but having beefsteak for dinner would mean nothing to me whatsoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull did not repeat the champagne celebration he staged last year when the U. S. lost its first Greek court fight to extradite him (TIME, Jan. 9). "I am tired," he said. "Send up a beefsteak, peas and fruit salad." Taking off shoes and coat in his suite Old Sam Insull dined alone while young Forest Harness digested the Greek Court's 6,000-word decision and conferred with U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh. Next day, without announcing his visit in advance, Minister MacVeagh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Ideal Justice | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...visions of fame and gold medals on his expanding chest one student took to shells and determined to be the hero of the regatta. Of course, there was a woman in it. With patience that would have given early Christians martyrs nervous breakdowns he retired at 10, ate raw beefsteak with much champing of teeth and eschewed cigarettes. Yes, he picked the most popular race and came in last in his qualifying heat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night and Day | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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