Word: luchow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Departures from the college routine often have as their focal point a meal with real plates and real food. For those who like their beer heavy and their food solid LUCHOW's way down on 14th Street has long been a favorite. Also far downtown is the SEAFARE, where the specialty of the house is, of all things, seafood. In the same vicinity is LE CHAMPIGNON, which serves excellent French and Italian food at excellent prices...
...world fencing championships in Stockholm last week, Mogens Luchow, Denmark's world épée champion, met a tough Finnish army captain named Ilmari Vartia. Luchow parried Vartia's attack, thrust sharply and powerfully in riposte. The stiff, three-cornered blade plunged into the Finn's chest. "There is no danger," insisted Vartia as the blade was eased out of the wound, its protective tip still in place. A moment later, with blood staining his white fencer's jacket, Captain Vartia slipped lifeless to the floor...
...twelve paintings were black, white, grey and brown recollections of Manhattan gin mills and restaurants that Luks patronized shortly after the turn of the century: Luchow's, Paddy the Pig's, Mouquin's, Carey's Hole in the Wall. There was not a Man of Distinction...
...carried a crack by Mr. H. L. Mencken . . . bemoaning the fact that Luchow's Restaurant had been sold [said Mencken: "It's the end of civilization"-TIME...
...corresponding secretary of Stamm-Tisch Hinterhaus, a luncheon club meeting regularly at Luchow's, I have been authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...