Word: caviare
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...Dumps. Not everyone, however, was so disapproving of the avalanche of expensive gaiety as Mrs. Grundy and Laborite George Thomson. Hotel managers purred happily as they scanned supper-room bookings, filled up solidly to Christmas. A wholesale caviar merchant reported "our best year ever." Dance pianists, even not very good ones, were demanding and getting as much as ?30 for an evening's work. In the midst of the merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have...
...London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class," wrote the doggedly proletarian New Statesman and Nation, "has got the bit between its teeth. Not since the '30s has it consumed so much bad champagne and dubious caviar, trampled so much broken glass underfoot, and driven so many village dressmakers to profitable distraction. Society is scrambling shakily to its feet again and cocking a tentative snoot at the masses...
Next day, as another undemonstrative crowd watched B. & K. enter Buckingham Palace "to sign the book" (the royal family was away at Windsor), police jumped on a small boy with a toy air rifle, hustled him away. At the Soviet embassy luncheon, over vodka and caviar, Khrushchev made an appeal to British reasonableness: "Both in the Conservative Party and in the ranks of the Opposition there are those who are in favor and those who are against our visit. We regard such a situation as natural, and it does not embarrass us." Khrushchev softly pleaded for peaceful coexistence: "As people...
...gang, a rogue's gallery of caricatures, also gets the sharp treatment it deserves. As a black-shirted brute, Herbert Lom providides a spicy commentary on American mobsters. As the artistic member of the crew, Peter Sellers serves cowardice as if it were caviar. There is also a hulk; whose huge and simple soul is bared by the pleasant acting of Danny Green. Cecil Parker, as a moustached Major who looks as if one could and does meet him in all the best places, completes the money-mad group...
Seated at a table under a large picture of Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, the ensign heroically ate his way through an eight-course meal (including caviar, crabmeat, mushrooms, capers and sturgeon), rose repeatedly to respond to vodka toasts. Three hours after he had arrived, he retrieved his cap with dignity from under a picture of Stalin and walked firmly down the gangway, carrying himself like a piece of priceless porcelain and bearing farewell gifts of caviar and whale's teeth. "Don't bother our distinguished guest," said genial Host Solianik to pier-side reporters. "He's still enjoying...