Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheval!" the French maitre d'hotel has confessed privately, "a bit of horseflesh for a people who will eat any meat providing it is 'corned.' . . . C'est leur propre fourrage...
Such unrepentant imposture, although common enough, was not practised last week in Paris, when a banquet consisting chiefly of horse, donkey and mule meat was set before three members of the famed Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincar. The three, all by way of being gourmets, *were: Paul Painlev, mathematician, twice Prime Minister (1917; 1925); Minister of Agriculture Henri Queuille; and Minister of Commerce Maurice Bokanowski...
When toast time came, M. Painlev raised an approving, effervescent glass to his hosts: The National Horse Industry Association. Their chef had proved, he said, that even meats not generally esteemed could achieve a rare deliciousness. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski added the inspiring information as to how many pounds of horse, donkey and mule meat are annually consumed in France. Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France...
...Other Woman was Amelia Earhart, who once sold sausage-meat while Mabel was selling cigars, and who looks amazingly like Lindbergh. Stultz had decided to risk a trans-atlantic flight with Lady Lindy rather than with the Diamond Queen, perhaps because: Lady Lindy is tall, blue-gray of eye, curly of hair, while her rival is shorter, dark-eyed, vividly blonde. More probably because...
...Ward Leigh is famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house...