Word: kebabbed
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...knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only capable man, in the Clementines, a small and not very notable Midwestern order. The tall, urbane priest is a city man whose name fits him nicely, and when he consumes champagne and shish kebab with a millionaire amid the turbaned blackamoors of Chicago's Pump Room, he is doing what all the other city men dining there are doing. He is working...
...Marseillaise, soufflé Grand Marnier, and Cornish Hen Perigourdine with sherry, truffles, foie gras, wild rice and brandy. Schrafft's has put on sale beef Burgundy with noodles, and chicken and mushroom pie with cheese crust. Other processors are selling kangaroo-tail soup, frozen bagels, sukiyaki, enchiladas, shish kebab and frozen chicken curry...
Society preceded sodomy. While Proust pursued halfhearted studies for the law and the diplomatic service, he put his passion into social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied...
Even though the old Zionist. Socialist and religious ideals still rule, their appeal begins to fade as Israel changes. Youngsters growing up on the desert feel more at home with shish kebab and Arab bread than with mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born...
...table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master." "Yes, yes," replied Mikoyan, with graveyard humor, "but my dear Lavrenty Pavlovich, in my kitchen you don't find a single damn piece of human meat...