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...cakes, coffee, tea, milk, near beer. This week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...
Behind Argentina's boneless neutrality, observers continued to read the Castillo. Government's fear that one more bungled German sinking of an Argentine ship would arouse to fever pitch that large part of the Argentine public which, unlike President Castillo, would gladly repudiate German designs on the Western Hemisphere...
...four she drew bugs and tigers pulling streetcars, later painted unicorns, circuses, zebras playing banjos. Since she was never exposed to lessons in anatomy, drawing or perspective, her people and animals are boneless but nonetheless seem natural. Her father's explanation: "She draws a picture of an animal like you write your name-through long, uninhibited practice...
Common denominator of U. S. ceramists is whimsy. Sculpture at the show ranged from Viktor Schreckengost's Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, three haloed Negroes smiling down at the flames, to Sascha Brastoff's boneless, bulbous, button-mouthed females, Emergence and Timid Maiden (see cut), who look like a pair of praying mantises. Ceramist Brastoff's figures, tastefully mounted on bases of grey velvet and satin, won a sculpture prize. Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus...
...stepmother country'' she found that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that...