Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attributed to another reason--there is no glamour for the public in the reading of scientific achievements. Sports and social events have always made a greater general appeal. To the majority of readers these news items are more personal, whereas the advances that scholars have made are "caviar to the general...
However I do not think we need be unduly alarmed. Many of the boys who wear French Crosses still refer to our late, great allies as the Damned Frogs, and I have eaten much chop suey and caviar and felt no inclination either to open a hand laundry or join the Third International...
...prophecy alone did Critic Gushing confine his last week's chatter. In addition he had scrambled together a list of famed musicians' food fancies. It read: "Toscanini. Kraftbruhe mit Ei (consomme with raw egg). . . . Iturbi, caviar on apples . . . Horowitz, Russian cutlets . . . Stokowski, raw vegetables . . . Hutcheson, mushrooms (he grows and eats them) . . . Cortot, bread and gravy . . . Brailowsky, lump sugar . . . Professor Erskine, raw beef . . . the Leners of the Lener Quartet, orange ice . . . Melchior, green apples . . . Gabrilovitch, sardine oil . . . Gershwin, cereal and milk . . . Schumann-Heink, onions . . . Jeritza, cabbage." Most, if not all of this list is verifiable fact...
...Hempstead, L. I., one Alexander Mazzone, railroad gatekeeper, was observed beside the tracks eating his lunch of caviar off a table on which he had placed a phonograph, a damask cloth, a vase of flowers...