Word: escargot
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...General Calles been in Mexico City the ceiling of the night club L'Escargot would almost certainly have remained intact last week. Hard-working General Calles' son Alfredo, 24, mightily enjoys a good party. When sufficiently primed he has the urge to shoot off pistols. After a particularly brisk melee in the Hotel Regis, year ago. Father Calles is said to have banished Son Alfredo to a distant hacienda far from the sound of saxophones or popping of champagne. With papa away last week. Alfredo was on the town again, shot four holes in L'Escargot...
...thousands of them are plucked from trees, bushes, walls and the good soil of Burgundy, are pulled rudely out of their shells, boiled, dressed with garlic, stuffed back and served up sizzling hot on tin plates to be downed between gulps of rich red Chambertin. So delectable is the escargot that the best breeds of him are becoming scarce. To restrict snail-plucking, the Department Council of the Cote d'Or met lately at Dijon, soon found itself embroiled in a hopeless argument over the question of what is a snail...