Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honoring Monteux's 75th birthday. Having had experience with banquets for some 50 years, the Maitre decided we had better have a four-course dinner before leaving, be prepared, as it were, for the inevitable fruit cup, tasteless mashed potatoes and chicken, topped off by the usual melted ice. So we ordered an iced melon, sole au vin blanc, new potatoes, endive braised, Edam cheese and toasted crackers, fresh strawberry ice, and Vienna coffee with whipped cream. This is why we were late, why I am on a diet and tea, tea, tea. Why Monteux would not hurry...
...Make $5,000. As a boy Marx excelled at baseball, basketball, ice-skating and shoplifting. "Everyone stole," he recalls complacently. "You weren't anyone if you couldn't steal." When he was nine, Lou proved he was someone by recruiting an accomplice and going to Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store. There they picked out a canoe, hefted it over their heads and walked out through the delivery exit unchallenged. The rest of that summer Louis and friends spent boating on Prospect Park Lake nearby...
Bostonian on Ice...
...friend of Henry Adams once twitted him on the Boston climate: "Boston was 1,387,453 years under the ice; and then the Adamses came." If the Adamses were both chilly and superior, they had a great deal to be superior about. Henry's great-grandfather John and his grandfather John Quincy were U.S. Presidents. His father Charles Francis was Minister to the Court of St. James's (1861-68). Though he wrote two masterpieces (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams), Henry Adams mocked himself as a lifelong failure, perhaps because he clung to the Confucian...
...there is the explosive "Montgomery" at 15 to one and the "Hemingway" at 64 to one. Every drinker has his own private" formula. One Manhattanite buys gin by the case, carefully pours out a twelfth of each bottle, tops them off again with vermouth, then puts the case on ice for a ready-mixed supply. Others ease in vermouth with eye droppers and perfume sprayers. Some purists merely pass an uncorked vermouth bottle over the gin; some merely shout the word out loud...