Word: caviare
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...increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles...
...Vagabond danced upon the point of a needle, he was so very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...
...heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down one mast of the pirates' boat...
...introduced himself. "Old man," he said, "I find we are cousins." Mike gained many other interesting friends, some of whom are still his friends, but he was not entirely popular. Some of the students complained that his face had a Near-Eastern cast. Cases of champagne and buckets of caviar, which Mike opened when funds arrived from the Northwest, won over many from the anti-Romanoff faction. The news spread with magical rapidity through the ancient seat of learning that a new and important "green pea," or inexhaustible spender, had been discovered. The greatest of Mike's parties...
...home, other sums for entertaining. To people who know Sir Henry there was nothing startling in these disclosures. He is a large, jovial man of 60 who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs nearly 16 stone (220 lb.), wears a Size 8 hat, Size 12 shoe. He likes caviar at least once a day, has a fondness for oysters, small pickled onions and other things he knows are not good for him. He is frank and forward, likes to work as hard as he lives. His ebullience and flair for speechmaking have made more than one tycoon call him "Canada...