Word: caviare
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...Boulevards. Pasty-faced workers found war news crowded from the headlines by the rue Le Sueur crime. In underheated rooms and overcrowded subways, clerks and salesgirls read the gory details. Fleshy black-marketeers and their flashy molls exchanged sadistic tidbits over champagne and caviar...
Algiers last week had its first-and perhaps its last-New Year's diplomatic reception. In his tree-shaded villa. Les Oliviers, overlooking Algiers bay. General Charles de Gaulle served port and caviar to handshaking representatives of eleven nations which, in some form or other, have recognized the French Committee of National Liberation. By next January, the men of Algiers hoped, a reception could be held in liberated Paris...
Tougher Hide. But with further success, the joy in success abated. Today, at 39, Hart is no caviar-for-breakfast fellow, but a pretty sober citizen. His chief indulgence is his farm, now more arboreal than ever. Tall, dark and glittering, with Mephistophelean eyebrows and Biblical eyes, for six years he has been going to a psychoanalyst, quips: "I ought to get my F (for Freud) any day now." The visits have helped dispel the dark self-doubts from which the bright gadgets offered escape. They have given him, among other things, the courage to write alone. But he still...
...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...