Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to do with tennis) is perhaps the fastest of all sports. In the U.S., only the members of half a dozen clubs ever get a chance to even watch it. London's sportswriters, hungry for a British athletic victory in anything, last week feasted on this caviar sport...
...friends and allies only when it suited their purpose. Most of the time they played hard-to-get, wore a surly, suspicious look, now & then did not even trouble to acknowledge official letters. Then suddenly they would be all smiles and dazzlingly amiable gestures, complete with vodka and caviar...
During the war Soviet diplomats and Latin American Communists carefully avoided anything that might set Washington's teeth on edge. In Mexico, then clearinghouse for Soviet diplomacy in Latin America, gifted, affable Ambassador Constantine Oumansky charmed Mexicans with his hothouse Spanish, his vodka and caviar. Local Commies, who were not encouraged to frequent the Embassy, decried labor unrest, concentrated their fire upon the Nazis. Most Latin regimes that were smiled upon by Washington enjoyed Commie backing for the duration...
...Immediately we were given dinner- an excellent dinner. All sorts of fish, excellent caviar-without end. After dinner we were taken home. Neither that day nor on any other day did we ever get a chance to walk around alone in the streets...
...book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...