Word: filet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silk-stockinged Papal chamberlains, noble guards, Officers of the Swiss Guard and Papal Grenadiers. Never before had such a great gathering been seen at a Vatican function. The menu at what pious Italians have come to call Peter's Table, was, while not frugal, surprisingly simple-consommé, filet of sole, roast guinea fowl, asparagus hollandaise, assorted ices, sweets, cheese, fruit. The envoys quenched their diplomatic thirsts with glasses of white Capri, red Barolos, tawny Marsala and Gringo-lino, and Italy's champagne, Asti spumante, from Peter's Cellar...
There are those who eat their filet...
...White House last week. Half an hour later the President and Mrs. Coolidge paid a 14-minute call on Queen Marie at the Rumanian Embassy. Soon Queen Marie sped back to the White House and was entertained at a state banquet: anchovy canape; consomme; lobster in cream; filet mignon; salad; ice cream; fruit; coffee...
Massachusetts Hall--1, Francois Filet Mignon; 2, Pippin the Short; 3 to 12, The Winegar Wolks; 13 to 24, The Vagnbond King...
Herriot may wrangle with a recalcitrant Chamber, the Reich may hide away machine guns in every Rhine fortress--but ah, ciel! what a filet! What matters it that the debt must be paid? One must eat. And since one must eat, one might as well eat the best, and brave the indigestion that man is heir...