Word: horsed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, with rather poor taste?a failing of the Marlboroughs?he read the menu, gloated pseudo-maliciously over the fact that cocktails went with hors d'oeuvres, sherry with the soup, sauterne with the fish, red wine with the entree, champagne with the chicken, port for toasts to the King...
Many another delicacy, too numerous to mention, was printed on the gilt menus, while the Zakouska, Russian equivalent for hors d'ouevres, consisted of everything from an olive to caviar, not excepting sterletes sigi-a rare and costly fish.
There were gay times in Paris with Georgina after Peter had recovered. He wooed her with champagne and hors d'oeuvres, wanted her to marry him at once; but the thought of that one pig deterred her. She decided it would be too hard upon the pig to have to...
The Chicago Daily Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," is not afraid to place itself in famous company. Recently it took its stand beside Dean Jonathan Swift, master of the most devastating satire ever known. When Swift wrote his Modest Proposal for disposing of excess Irish population by...