Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neolithic French and German ("Swy tay, bitta").* The flying Yorkshireman deserts her for a floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...
...remove all luxury items (caviar, anchovies, etc.) from the rationing list...
Before Auer went there, great Russian violinists were scarcer than caviar on a peasant's table. By the time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
...Haydn, a packed house listened with hushed attention, savored each trill of the viola, each violinistic vibration. Many of the audience were well-known Manhattan musicians who had dropped in for a quiet taste of musicians' music. Many others were concert-hardened music lovers whom only the caviar of two violins, a viola and a cello could drag from their homes on a pleasant afternoon. But nearly all of them were regular patrons to whom the New Friends' concerts are a weekly ritual...
...shameful because no one could treat the food problem as a disastrous Act of God. The harvest year 1942 was the most bounteous since the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. The Japs and Nazis had cut the U.S. off from only a few more or less exotic foodstuffs. (Examples: caviar, anchovies, patée de fois gras.) Thus, with reason, all over the land the U.S. housewife and her menfolk were beginning to ask: How come a bottleneck in the middle of a horn of plenty? But there was no one bottleneck. There were nine...