Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screams Ruth Chatterton in a moment of high mechanical emotion; but alas, she does go on, and on, and on, until the audience of "Female," current epic at the Metropolitan, is ready to weep with sympathy for the poor girl so driven by the desperate struggle for cakes and caviar. The case of Ruth Chatterton should be taken up by a Society for the Prevention of. If she could act, she might be a beautiful actress, if she were beautiful. About all that can be said for her is summarized in the title of the movie...
...longer seems a sprightly burlesque of all lyric-writing. His lyrics often appear to be simply slovenly, lazy work. But Victor Moore is even funnier than he was in Of Thee I Sing. Dictator Wintergreen promises everybody cake when he gets to the Blue House. His successor promises caviar. When the counterrevolution takes place, Funnyman Moore saves himself from being guillotined and becomes President of the U. S. He promises pistachio ice cream...
...everything in its power last week to show that it meant no harm to any other nation. In Rome a non-aggression pact with Italy was signed. A guest in the still magnificent English Gothic Morosov Palace (now the Foreign Office guest residence) and there plied with champagne and caviar blini was bulky, friendly Edouard Herriot of France. Holding no government post, Citizen Herriot smiled a great deal and said nothing. All Moscow was convinced that new Franco- Russian trade agreements were brewing, felt that the old problem of the 20 billion ($4,000,000,000) gold franc loan made...
...thought how grand a target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years...
...take effect until April 26. It was for three months only. By unofficial count 80% of Soviet imports would be affected. Experts scanning the list announced that only 50% of last year's Russian imports would be affected. Parliament could not face the idea of banning caviar or sables from Britain-even for three months. Omitted too were the important imports of matches, fish, eggs. And the Government, by means of "observers" and "unofficial spokesmen," scattered hints broadcast that the embargo, although cocked & aimed, would not be fired if the sentences of Engineers MacDonald and Thornton were commuted...