Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries of the northeast, can return to the Persian Gulf loaded with Mazanderan cotton and Caspian Sea caviar. How much the freight charges will be is another matter...
Jagged cakes of ice jostled each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...opening of the new Council of the Union (House of Representatives) and Council of Nationalities (Senate), delegates from rustic farms downed scorching vodka and wolved caviar with delegates from thundering factories. Hot jazz blared and later the springs of many a de luxe hotel bed groaned under the hulks of exhausted peasants...
...Swarthmore's campus last week sprang up a successor to the Veterans of Future Wars. Undergraduates formed the United Scions of the Aristocracy, claiming 215 members, drafted a program for "uniting the scattered crumbs of the upper crust," planned to agitate for free caviar and champagne for 'Impecunious aristo-crats." First to receive their attention will be the "underfêted and undersoused one-thirtieth of the nation's population." Their legislative aims include pensions for indigent debutantes and for "well-bred worthies who can prove they have never soiled their hands with labor." Cried an aristocracy...
...night after the anti-Comintern Pact was signed Italian, German and Japanese officials went to a splendiferous champagne and caviar banquet at the Soviet Embassy in Rome, and to this merry celebration of Bolshevism's 20th Birthday (see p. 22) Ambassador Hotta lent color by attending in brilliant Japanese native dress...