Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...
Some meat cuts were still a rarity last week but better-class German restaurants included snails, lobster, frogs' legs, crabs, trout and caviar in their menus while promising their customers succulent Schweinebraten and Wiener Schnitzel to be carved from one million Danish pigs and 10,000 cattle condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises...
...Nazis arrived he had proclaimed, "Every civilized man is praying, after his fashion, for the victory of France." Said a friend in Washington last week: "I'm afraid it will break old Bill's heart. The Germans will probably bow to him from the waist and have caviar shipped in especially, and he would love it if they put him on bread and water." At week's end Mr. Bullitt was reported to have left his hosts, traipsed off to Bordeaux...
...Stillman he thought, quite naturally, that he was being poisoned, as he was a Russian and used to better things. And one morning when the doctors found him drinking a bottle of ink as a remedy, it wad decided that he had best return to the land of caviar...