Word: dessertation
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...plotters was General Maurice Guillaudot, who was about to go to a banquet when police came for him. Said he: "I understand what is involved. Just let me go to my banquet." The French police, who pride themselves on being raisonnable, let him go to the banquet. Immediately after dessert, he was arrested. "The Masons have got me," he muttered...
...minor disappointment. Bevin had asked for snails (which he learned to like during the Paris Conference last summer), but had not given the Embassy chef enough notice. At dessert, fruit had to be substituted for strawberry melba, be cause, at the last moment, the iceman (striking for five francs more an hour) did not come...
...Almost from the time they start first grade, the boys get the idea that scholarship is great stuff. In our school, it's considered good form to do good work." Once a month the older boys with grades of 87% or better get ice cream and cake for dessert, while the dullards eat applesauce or prunes. Each spring Peters declares a half-holiday in honor of old grads who have made Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors at college. He usually picks the day the Cleveland Indians play their opening game...
Sold by the beauteous Duchess of Kent: household special-effects accumulated by the late Duke. The Duchess, now in smaller quarters, has no room for them. At auction in London, a Sèvres china dessert service brought ?609, a pair of porcelain vases ?1,260, a walnut settee ?1,785. Total receipts...
...week's ration of food at controlled prices. He can put it in a soup plate. His wife may serve to a guest the best dinner they have had in weeks-soup with meat and noodles, a dish of chickpeas, cabbage and sausage, with an orange for dessert. To buy that meal for four people, he had to spend $2.28 on the black market. And in his household, where two people work, the combined income...