Word: lamb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villa, Victor, with the hospitality of a gastronomic grand seigneur, led me to the kitchen and, opening the tremendous refrigerators, bared his culinary treasures. . . . There were mountains of the most beautiful sirloins, filet mignon, and chateaubriant, all the color of a pretty woman's lips; various cuts of lamb . . . capons, chickens and all sorts of birds. . . . I quickly decided on a filet to be broiled on hickory wood...
...Congress, Joe Baldwin* has tried to do more than that. Since he reached the House in a 1941 by-election, he has jumped political party fences as often and agilely as a spring lamb. In the 79th Congress, out of 57 major party votes, he has bolted 21 times (he voted against perpetuation of the Dies Committee, against emasculating the Full Employment Bill, against returning the USES to the States, against crippling...
...permitted them again, if the People's Commissar for Finance found the purpose worthy. During World War II, lottery loans ran up to 2,200,000,000 rubles; they paid off in cash and also in kind, including women's shoes, silk dresses and a Persian lamb coat...
...entertainment prices well below U.S. levels. They had also been lured on by splurges like the $750,000 spent this year by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to advertise its hotels, by tons of gaudy literature, by newspaper and magazine ads plugging everything from Quebec's salty seaweed-fed lamb to junkets to Alaska and Hudson...
...Beef, pork, lamb, and rice, garnished with almonds, olives, raisins, pimiento, and hot spices. *Present owner: Colonel John Jacob Astor, principal owner of the London Times...