Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Reed came to Harvard from Portland, Oregon, and graduated with the Class of 1910. He took a normal, fashionable part in college activities, made the Lampoon, was cut from the CRIMSON, was head cheerleader during the football season of 1909, wrote the Pudding show, and consumed champagne and caviar at some of the best Boston deb parties. He went to New York, fell under the wing of Lincoln Steffens, became interested in the plight of labor, organized a gigantic labor pageant, was jailed for radical activities. Went to Mexico as war correspondent, made friends with Pancho Villa...
...automobile and headed a caravan of Democratic Governors and Congressmen up a new 140-mile highway through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its woodsy peaks and valleys "thrilled and delighted" him. Caught in a thunder shower at lunch time, he wriggled into a slicker, washed down fried chicken and caviar sandwiches with a bottle of beer. At a Cherokee Indian Reservation near Sylva, N. C., Chief Standing Deer (Jerry Blythe) capped the President with a headdress of eagle feathers, mumbled some Cherokee which made him the tribe's Chief White Eagle. White Eagle got his feathers off before photographers...
...remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately he took up his abode in a fine hotel in Washington and he got to eating caviar, cav-eh-ah. It ain't a thing in the world but Russian catfish eggs, and it upset him and disordered him. What is the cure? . . . Take him across our specked and checkered aprons and give him a first class political spanking and presently he will be all right, sitting...
...have plucked up enough courage to go and see what their native village is like today. Mostly naturalized in the U. S., they travel 3,500 miles to exclaim "What a dump!" In Soviet hotels guests are offered such strange alternatives as "You can have with your dinner either caviar or a fresh vegetable or ice cream...
...orphaned by the War, raised and educated in France by a Philadelphian he has never seen. When his profession as an electrical engineer barely brought him bread, he commercialized his digital talent. "I make bread and butter and jam," he now can say, "soon I think there will be caviar...