Word: canap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stacks of Art Quiz dwindled like canapés at a cocktail party and in two days the first printing (500) was exhausted, another of 1,500 copies ordered. Pleased Miss Parker planned more quizzical quizzes...
...caviar, 200 Ib. of lobster, 10,000 fish balls, 12,000 tea sandwiches, 100 boxes of cigars, 6.000 packages of cigarets. That afternoon none other than Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...
...attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in general. When the Swanee Sisters have executed a bewildering overnight rise from penniless unemployment to cabaret celebrity, Patsy Kelly is less pleased than truculently suspicious and, when a waiter hands her a caviar canapé, her dissatisfaction is complete. "What good is caviar?" she demands hoarsely. "It tastes like buckshot soaked in axle grease." Good songs: Take It Easy, I'm in the Mood for Love...
petit-point canap...
...Caviar canapés, cold boiled lobsters, chickens in aspic and other unaccustomed objects covered the draughting tables in the offices of Reinhard & Hofmeister last week. Earnestly munching, architects, reporters, engineers, radio tycoons and photographers stood round a central table on which a 5-ft. plasterboard model slowly revolved-the model for the greatest private architectural project ever undertaken in the U. S., New York's $250,000,000 Radio City (TIME, July...