Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vintila Bratianu in common with his satellites," cried Professor Madgearu, "used to requisition caviar from the state fisheries in huge quantities! When bills were presented they were seldom or never paid. At the time of his death Vintila Bratianu owed the Rumanian State Fisheries for caviar...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
...silver and an iron constitution, General Wu Ti-chen went to Mukden to give a few parties for Chang, to make a final attempt to win him permanently to the Nationalist government. Smart Son Chang enjoyed the parties. At Wu's expense they ate bushels of fresh red caviar, gallons of bird's nest soup, mountains of sharks' fins, plovers' eggs, washed down by more gallons of champagne. Platoons of sing-song girls were imported. Merchants ransacked their storehouses for jewels, brocades and rare jades, with General Wu always footing the bill...
...wields the might of the largest standing army on earth (725,000 men?U. S. Army 136,217). To grasp even a fraction of Stalin's purpose and achievements?which today are mainly economic?one must grapple with no easy map. Like stars in the firmament, like grains of caviar spread by a lavish Russian on his pancakes, are the elements of Stalin's Five-Year Plan...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...