Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the corner, the prime roasts and shepherd's pies at still other restaurants, the lady's pate had been, a few days earlier, a long-legged foal romping after a chestnut mother not long retired from a dairy cart. Last week it was still illegal in Britain to kill horses under seven years old for food or serve it in restaurants if other meat was available...
Only the most fastidious of hosts were above it all. Asked whether horse was likely soon to replace whale meat or snoek in Britain, one Soho restaurateur replied: "Madame, we never serve these things. None of them can be tamed to the palate...
...Parliament, Britain's blustering Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan got called to personal account for the high cost of socialized dentistry. Demanded M.P. Frank Medlicott: "Has the minister calculated how much of the greatly increased expenditure is caused by the fact that every time he makes a speech there is widespread gnashing of teeth...
...last week, pretty Actress Rita Hayworth, whose face and figure are her fortune, and the opulent Aly Khan, who has less visible means of support, passed through Manhattan bound for Britain, Switzerland and, possibly, marriage. Readers of the tabloid New York Daily News choked on their gum when they read that Miss Hayworth looked "as pale and haggard as though she had walked all the way from Hollywood [to meet her] gold-plated boy friend from mystic India." She scurried aboard the liner Britannic, the Daily News went on, over a gangplank "ordinarily used, dock workers said, to take bodies...
...Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France by Remy (Gilbert Renault), the most exciting story of espionage in World...