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...cheval!" the French maitre d'hotel has confessed privately, "a bit of horseflesh for a people who will eat any meat providing it is 'corned.' . . . C'est leur propre fourrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Horses into Gourmets | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...white wig. His green stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a pompon, leered dreadfully into the black polished depths of a cheval-glass. Beside him lay an overturned stool. A rope, strung through pulleys, connected his neck with the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Dandy | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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