Word: lobsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Council, who have the power to overrule him on almost any point, journeyed to the heavy pine forests north of Bangor for the Council's regular semimonthly meeting. By way of telling the world about Maine, they also had four days of deer and bear hunting, lobster eating, biscuit baking, rye drinking and poker playing...