Word: codfish
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...continue to subscribe to William F. Buckley Jr.'s famous dictum: "I would rather be governed by the first three million five hundred thousand codfish in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University...
...young clergyman is described as having the face of "a sheep with a secret sorrow." Sociopolitical generalization? This is as close as Wodehouse gets: "Unlike the male codfish, which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons...
Well, the elder Bushes and the elder Gores did not give birth to codfish - nor did they look on their sons with a jaundiced eye. That's left...
...Some of the rotating dishes include bacalhau, a codfish stew with potatoes, onions, garlic, green pepper and spices, smothered in olive oil and vinegar; polvo, an octopus dish with potatoes, onions, and red and white wine; and alcatra, which includes big chunks of beef, pepper corns, smoked bacon, onions, tomatoes, and red wine, placed in a clay pot and baked for three hours...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...