Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purses and stomachs seem to be well lined. People trample under foot what four years ago they would have scrambled for like starving street cats. Barrels of caviar are visible...
...used to every know Mr. evening when Bryant.* I bought the Post every evening when I left the office. After I retired it was brought to my home. About two of years ago it was bought by Mr. Curtis of Philadelphia, who published the Saturday Evening Post and other caviar. Then I felt as if I had lost a friend...
...favorite dish. Those who have given up through a growing fastidiousness this succulent indulgence need no longer conceal their weakness or camouflage it by a French menu. Democracy has justified them, and from henceforth the great majority, washed or unwashed, will never be abashed by snobbish ecstasies over caviar or pulcinelli. The people have voted and cabbage is the king of the cafe...
...also of sturgeon?Mr. Hoover will report that, in 30 years, the annual catch of sturgeon has decreased by 2,890,000 lb., or 88%. Toothless, long-snouted, mail-headed, he was once the monopoly of England's King. From his female's roe comes caviar. And his flesh bakes pleasantly...
TIME, in the Jan. 19 issue, referred to the New York Evening Bulletin as "morons' caviar." Might not TIME be called "angels' food for the aristocracy of brains? Angels' food is not very substantial. ELIZABETH KING BLACK...