Word: lobstering
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Whatever the prospects of eventual union, in rationed Holland last week lean and shabby Dutch, once stout and well-dressed, were hoarding their 40 weekly cigarets, while across the border in Belgium men with money ate lobster, steaks, butter, and drank French wine. Many Dutch women still wore ski trousers and ski boots while their Brussels sisters chatted over their tea in chic comfort...
Only a few months ago these fulsome phrases would have had a hollow ring. Last week, stuffed with terrapin soup, lobster newburg and filet mignon, Democrats nodded approvingly...
...borrowed minds." This attitude has precluded for Allen hundreds of friendships. His only real intimates are two rusty old iron men of vaudeville, "Uncle Jim" Harkins and "Doc" Rockwell. Uncle Jim acts as his social secretary and general Man Friday; Doc has retired to Southport, Maine, where he tends lobster pots...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
...executives . . . continue to go their old Lobster-Supper-Charlie way, delighting in the pitiful ostentations of the nouveaux-riches. . . . They can never leave well enough off alone...