Word: horsed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, on a recent quick trip to Moscow, was wined & dined by correspondents, who treated him to a $50-a-person supper of zakuska and borsch (hors d'oeuvres and vegetable soup), scalloped veal, etc. When a Red Army captain was invited over from another table, Colonel...
Tito offered us hors d'oeuvres with caviar (a gift from the Russian mission), risotto with mushrooms, pumpkin pie, coffee, more Slivovic and Dalmatian red wine.
Charm and Champagne. When the concert was over, Molotov led the dash for the eats. There were ten dining rooms, all heavily laden with food and drinks. Zakuska (Russian hors d'oeuvres) was so plentiful that by the time the hot dishes arrived, hours later, nobody was hungry except...
Beebe reports a menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar...
For this bluff treatment of the women who pay $37.75 and up for a hat, Ben is rewarded with fawning affection. Last Easter 22 of his clients were so grateful that they threw a surprise cocktail party for him in his shop, complete with hors d'oeuvres from his...