Word: horsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Harvard Band started off the latest chapter of "Drumbeats and Song" with a program of marches, medleys and the best band music in the country. After this predictably excellent hors d'oeuvre came a main course that was a delightful surprise.
Even so, a few snippets of gossip got out. The court heard that Louis sometimes fainted at dinner, after stuffing himself to the gills. Sample menu: four soups, three terrines of foie gras, countless hors d'oeuvres, 16 meat courses, partridge, chicken, song birds, pheasant, turkey, squab, 14 desserts...
¶Sex-"To the Latin, sex is an hors d'oeuvre; to the Anglo-Saxon, it is a barbecue."
Eyelashes & Hors d'Oeuvres. The 1952 spring and summer catalogue still offers such farm necessities as horse collars, castration clamps and animal feed (now reinforced with antibiotics). But there is also a choice of hors d'oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed...
Leather chairs, paintings, and drapes with a wine bottle motif, suggested small-scale cocktail parties for Parlor B, and not the official headquarters of the Massachusetts Committee for Taft. On the center hors d'hoeuvres table, were pamphlets telling why "Bob Taft is the GOP's best bet for '52...