Word: bombees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Bombe Atomic." In a material sense, the dinner, or dinners (there were two: in the Presidential Room of the Statler Hotel and the ballroom of the Mayflower) were a success. Some 2,900 Democrats and their wives showed up and, at $100 a plate, cleared $200,000 for the Democratic...
At the two hotels, Democrats tried hard to whip themselves into a festive spirit. There was terrapin soup, breast of capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress...
Bombe Common
The night before the wedding, bride & groom dined alone with their families. The next meal they would take together would be as man & wife at the wedding breakfast in Buckingham Palace, where a three-course austerity menu of fish, partridge and bombe Elizabeth (ice cream) would be served.
New York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad...