Word: crabmeat
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...bananas. Miss Baker and some friends (Roger Rico, current male lead in South Pacific, Mrs. Rico and Mrs. Bessie Buchanan, an old friend of Miss Baker's) had sat down in the Cub Room, where they were served a round of drinks. Then Miss Baker ordered a crabmeat cocktail, a steak and a bottle of wine. One hour later, according to friends, nothing had been served, and the waiters were playing a rotary defense. Josephine, who has made something of a specialty of creating incidents since her return to the U.S. last spring, reacted with practiced dispatch. She stormed...
...Francisco last week to try to make peace among California's demoralized, feuding Democrats. First he held court in his second-floor Fairmont Hotel suite for a procession of party leaders. Then he dropped down to the Fairmont's soft-lighted Gold Room for a lunch of crabmeat cocktail and turkey breast, and a full-throated political stump speech to Democrats from eleven Western states, Hawaii and Alaska...
...Treasury last week clamped a ban on imports of Russian crabmeat, because it is produced by "forced, convict and indentured labor." It was the first time any Russian product has been barred from the U.S. since the recognition of Communist Russia by Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...chef at Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland hotel asked several gourmets to name their favorite after-theater supper dishes. Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller said he favored hot crabmeat in cream. Artist Salvador Dali liked tripe a la mode de Caen. Author Michael (The Green Hat) Arlen fancied hot Virginia ham topped with poached fresh peaches, the whole bathed in Madeira sauce...
...Broad Street, the bronze statue of a Union soldier (First Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard) backed against the red-brick headquarters of the Union League of Philadelphia. Old, dignified Republicans, walking up the curving steps to lunch on stewed snapper or crabmeat Dewey while discussing politics and finance, sometimes gave the bronze hero a glance. Theirs was the party which saved the Union 81 years...