Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What astute B'rer Briand really wanted was to get from his guests an endorsement of his scheme which should be unanimous, however vague. Therefore the food and wine were of first importance. No gourmet himself, M. Briand had the menu prepared by M. Aimé Leroy, a noted epicure who is also French Consul-Genera] in Geneva...
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...That's their proper fodder!" *The gourmand may be a mere glutton. The gourmet must possess an ecstatic discrimination among foods similar to the faculty of the dgustateur of wine...
With the portentous tread of a cheese gourmet and epicure, M. Millerand advanced to the base of the statue. There he spoke movingly of the woman now commemorated in bronze, Mme. Marie Harel. It was to her glory and to the glory of France, said Alexandre Millerand, that in 1771 good Mme. Marie Harel invented and produced that soft white pearl among cheeses, Camembert. Today, added practical Lawyer Millerand, the sale of French Camembert exceeds 75,000,000 boxes per annum...
...funny he is. It is a case for superlatives, but not for the kind of superlatives that were properly scattered at The Gold Rush. There is nothing in The Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when...