Word: escargot
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...Louis?" scoffs Marie Antoinette. "He has the brains of a chicken." In the metaphoric excess of cinema courtiers, the Duke d'Escargot reminds her: "The brains of a chicken coupled with the claws of two eagles may hatch the eggs of our destruction...
...Thomas Hoving dragooned City Greeter Sharman Douglas and former Miss America Bess Myerson into rowing them around the lake ("Stroke, stroke, stroke!" cried Lindsay), engaged in an oar-slapping water fight with pursuing newsmen (who seriously considered sinking the mayor's "Ship of State"), captured a tiny snail ("Escargot," they announced), cooked an omelet, and toured the environs atop a "cherry picker" used to replace street lights. Funny...
Most of the Bretons in New York are restaurateurs: of Manhattan's 75 French restaurants, fully 21 are owned and staffed by Gourinois. They range from the East Side's L'Escargot (which serves a Breton specialty, homard à l'Armoricain, for $5) through the West Side's Café des Sports, where for $1.80 a customer can demolish a head of lamb, drink two glasses of extraordinary vin ordinaire, and talk soccer with Proprietor Lucien Lozach, a former goalkeeper himself, who is keener on scores than on scullery...
...they retire into their shells when wind or heavy rain strikes their tender skins. "The snail is a peaceable creature," says Cadart. "Excesses of nature do not please him." Patiently in his shell he waits until trouble is over. "What animal seems more free and happy than the escargot...
...French and French Canadian editions, Maurice Chevalier, an old Rose friend who knows his Times Square as well as his Montmartre, had turned the Rose prose into "galloping Gallic." Wrote Billy, after a look at Champagne, Danseuses et Stylographe: "You could have knocked me over with an escargot...