Word: loing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans' most famed restaurant; after long illness; in New Orleans. Once a year he closed his restaurant, went to France to find new recipes. His Oysters Rockefeller were so named because he knew "no richer name for their richness." Overindulgence in his café brûlo diabolique (coffee poured into a silver goblet of flaming spices and brandy) sent O. Henry to a bed from which he never rose. In his restaurant he permitted no smoking or coffee until after meals...
...Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . They departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.-Matthew...
...when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many a Sunday afternoon subscriber remembered that he had made a speech three years ago when Signora Carla was home in Milan with a broken leg. At great expense that day Columbia Broadcasting System had arranged a short wave connection lo Italy and at the end of the concert, to everyone's amazement, the Maestro rushed up to the microphone and in his croaking voice said: "I send you my best greetings. I will sail in two days and I will see you and embrace you." At the Sunday afternoon...
...TIME is lo be congratulated on an exceptionally able and interesting presentation of this emergency organization's efforts to end depression...
...group from Dunster House recently visited the Hung Fi Lo restaurant in Chinatown. Honorable Fi Lo evidently was without the vigilance characteristic of his countrymen, for the group from Dunster House returned with one dozen pairs of chop sticks. Carefully concealed in inside coat pockets, the chop-sticks were smuggled into Dunster's salle a manger...