Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they thought they would receive a luxurious welcome such as was lavished last year on George Bernard Shaw (TIME, Aug. 10), they were right. The Soviet Government threw open its expensive "Guest House" for the Lord & Lady. With the discrimination of an epicure Lord Passfield ate and ate of caviar...
Girandoles and red plush, champagne and rich grey caviar, pretty Moscow women and gay music-it is a long way from all that to a lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution...
...broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...
...Widespread depression has tended to lessen the contrast between rich and poor" is the comforting assertion of the hunger stricken author of the editorial. Doubtless he has had the insufferable experience of being deprived of his caviar for breakfast or perhaps this year can have as his extra car only a Buick instead of a Packard...
...twelve paying guests. Each of the twelve must invite eight, each of the eight, four-by which time 7,921 people will have contributed $15,842 to benefit the 1,700 draughtsmen, drunk approximately 31,-684 cocktails to the benefit of 1,536 bootleggers, eaten approximately 180 Ibs. of caviar to the benefit of the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-lics...