Word: filet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After they had all dined well on filet mignon, Foster rose. One by one the representatives of 15 Jewish, Catholic and Protestant charitable institutions and Western Reserve University were asked to step to the head table, where Foster sat with a happy smile on his face. At the table each one was handed a big check or a batch of securities. When the giveaway party was all over, Foster had handed out $4,000,000. Said he: "Too many institutions get their money from dead men. I wanted to see them get it. I have no more...
...time, he recalled wistfully, it was cold roast beef-until the price of beef went too high. Today it's ham-cold or hot, baked or boiled-but almost always ham, "frequently with raisin sauce." (Taft, delayed by a television appearance, missed the Lions' menu: filet mignon, crabflake gumbo, asparagus tips polonaise...
...Five times the nation had responded by giving the Democrats the presidency. Now they faced a sixth test, which promised to be the sternest of all. Girding for the battle, 6,000 Democratic leaders assembled in Washington and paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...
...course it's a pity Miss Josephine Baker did not get her filet mignon at the Stork Club just when she ordered it, but I don't think the incident is enough to send half the nation rushing about bellowing self-righteously in all directions as if the steak had been cut from their own hindquarters. Am I morally obtuse, or is there really a menace to the American Constitution entrenched on 53rd Street...
Three weeks later students at the Louisiana Girls' College struck back, gave 23 faculty members an intelligence test. Among the teachers' answers: they defined sequins as fish, named Al Jolson as a wrestling champion, Maraschino a Premier of Russia and Filet Mignon an opera by Puccini...