Word: dish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Learning. In Saigon, about to congratulate his host's Vietnamese cook on a tastefully prepared rabbit, ex-Anthropology Student Frederic Wickert looked closer at the dish, recognized the remains of a cat, that evening went home, analyzed his own dinner, discovered that his Chinese cook had served him dog sausages...
...Billion-Franc Bet. Last week, at the start of Deauville's most fashionable fortnight, André prowled his domain from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. each day, checking the activities of his 2,000 employees (per capita wine allowance: 5 gals. a season), the kitchens that dish out one ton of roast beef and 30 lbs. of caviar a day, the cellars from which 20,000 bottles of champagne flow each season...
...morning he noticed that guests' shoes were losing their gloss, ordered refresher courses for his shoeshine force. Horrified to learn that the Casino was losing 40? a portion on every meat dish, André phone-swoggled his butcher into giving him a $285-a-week price cut. Since he counts on making $1.75 on every $100 bet at roulette, André closely inspects the three inspectors he posts at every gambling table to keep an eye on the croupiers...
...there that he would stick to wine for the duration. When other hosts proudly laid a sheep's head and ear before him, Douglas manfully nibbled some meat from atop the cranium (quite tasty) and the center of the ear (quite gristly). This was only the ceremonial dish in what sometimes stretched into a 21-course meal. After some feasts, entertainment followed, and the guest was expected to reciprocate. Douglas, a onetime Yale law professor, kicked out some pretty fair Cossack polkas and warbled the Whiffenpoof Song...
...were convulsed with the news that Marilyn was holed up in Manhattan with the entire Modern Library, and had sworn she would not unlock the door until she was cultured. The rumors began to get wilder. Marilyn had been admitted to the Actors Studio, and was studying the deep-dish Stanislavsky Method. She wanted to play Grushenka in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov...