Word: gras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 200 rooms, and guests are pampered with decorator interiors, extra pillows, and lemon soap. Guests can also expect good New England cooking in the dining room (lobster pie, clam chowder, homemade bread, Indian pudding) and special celebrations on Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, and the twelve days of Christmas, when several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date: the ten-story Treadway Inn at Niagara Falls (see MODERN LIVING) is an all-electric motel in which desk...
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 24-- Gras atmosphere prevails tonight among the 15,000 people gathered at Martin Luther King's voting rights three miles from George Montgomery Statehouse...
...that can quickly run a grocery order to sky-high figures. Christmas accounts for 25% of Fortnum's business; last week 700 employees hustled to fill orders from eminent customers for such items as Beluga caviar ($44 a lb.), Stilton cheese, smoked Scotch salmon and pate de foie gras en croute, flown from Strasbourg. Almost every order includes that centerpiece of British Christmas, Fortnum's plum pudding, 70,000 of which will be sold in London or mailed around the world this year...
...peones and gauchos did the ranching, while the gentry cut a swath through Europe. Returning from a trip in the 1920s, the four sons of one family brought home a complete French brothel plus a year's supply of champagne and páté de foie gras-and in case that palled, they also brought 100 Ibs. of opium. Another turn-of-the-century estanciero in Patagonia got his kicks by staging Indian hunts with his chums; well-buttressed by booze, they rode out in parties of a dozen or so to slaughter the nomadic tribesmen who shared...
...department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals, stunt pilots and amateur parachutists. "We don't make snap decisions," says McKerrow. "We sit here for hours and discuss how to fix a rate, how to determine the hazards...