Word: lobstering
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...seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
After consuming and partly digesting lobster bisque, filet mignon and half a dozen speeches, half a hundred of the nation's topflight scientists and mathematicians got up from the table in the University of Pennsylvania's Houston Hall. They trooped three blocks down the street to the Moore Electrical Engineering School, to witness the first public demonstration of the latest and greatest mechanical brain-a series of dials, 18,000 tubes and cabinets, occupying an entire room...
...forward well into the room, he was sick. . . . There was ... a kind of insane and endearing orderliness about Sebastian's choice, in his extremity, of an open window." The episode ended in the deathless friendship of Sebastian and Ryder, solemnized at a luncheon of plovers' eggs and lobster Newburg...
...haired, motherly" maid to look after his three-year-old daughter Susie, a new toy for Susie every day, flowers every morning for his wife Jane, candles on the table for dinner, a one-way telephone-"outgoing only," a prodigious menu full of such delicacies as filet! mignon and lobster a la Newburg, a daily program of sightseeing, theatergoing, and nightclubbing to be planned by the hotel...
...lunched at King's house, on lobster, filet mignon, asparagus salad, raspberries a la mode. At Earnscliffe, stately home of British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald, he talked with Canadian Socialist Leader M. J. Coldwell. If they did more than exchange niceties, they kept it to themselves. At night there were Scotch highballs and more food-oysters, roast turkey, baked Alaska-at a state dinner at the swank Country Club...