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Word: filets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess sergeant has his own way of announcing filet de fily for chow. Horse blankets instead of table cloths...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/12/1943 | See Source »

...Pearl Harbor should have been surprised. "They got the same warnings we did in Manila. That war was maybe days, perhaps even only hours, away." Lieut. Robert Boiling Kelly knew enough to "put aboard the thickest charcoal-broiled filet mignon" Manila could supply, so as to be ready for the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: By Guess & By God | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Among the tastier bits on the extra order list were: "Puree Mongoloid, with Pigtails," "Completed creamed Mushroom Soup with Cretins, (Little idiots with large heads)," "Filet of Soles (I were them myself, says the Colonel)," and "Sordid Cold Cuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gold Coast Seniors Produce A Menu to End All Menus | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...look a lot like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Menagerie in Blue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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