Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms at the Foreign Office where Host Litvinov dispenses champagne and caviar on solid silver plates-belonging to the government...
...this questioning room and everywhere else in the building the last word in efficiency was manifest. My questioners certainly knew what they were doing. That is. among other things they knew engineering. . . . At intervals food was brought in, and in abundance. Among other things there was caviar...
...impossible to associate such cheap tactics with one whose conduct heretofore was strictly noblesse oblige. A characteristic prodigality has always been the Prince's distinguishing trait. A good illustration of this was the time when, having only fifteen dollars between him and the park bench, he dined on caviar. Strassbourgh goose liver, and champagne to the tune of twelve dollars, left a three dollar tip, and then stalked royally out without a cent in his pocket...
...increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles...
...Vagabond danced upon the point of a needle, he was so very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...