Word: melon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restricted to the elusive complexities of French cuisine, but make some gratifying forays into solid Viennese and Hungarian cooking. Their names alone are fascinating, e.g., Dublin Coffee James Joyce, Hot Toddy for Cold Night, Nameless Cookies, Very Good Chocolate Mousse, Tricolored Omelette, Chicken in Half Mourning, Scheherazade's Melon, Virgin Sauce...
...last week craned their tourist rubbernecks at Red China. The entertainment provided at Peking was at least as lavish as that shown the British in Moscow. One night there was a ten-course dinner for 400 at The House of Magnanimity (a former imperial palace), where the menu featured melon prepared in the shape of the shaven head of one of Buddha's disciples. On another occasion, a reception for 600, 23 toasts of mutual friendship and admiration were drunk in red and yellow wine-and they were kanpei (bottoms up) toasts. It was all very heady stuff...
...saturated with what Critic Cyril Connolly once called "the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket), and the metaphysical pingpong...
...Melon & Coke. Murchison has built such a wheeling-dealing reputation that propositions pour into his downtown Dallas office at the rate of more than 600 a year. Only a handful are acted on. Murchison does most of his thinking about these while others sleep. He gets up as early as 3:30 a.m., brews himself a pot of coffee and sits for hours, thinking and listening to the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, a fundamentalist preacher on Dallas' Station KRLD. After breakfast (a slice of melon or a bottle of Coke) he drives himself to work in a 1953 Ford...
...woman broke through the crowd and dashed into the street. The President greeted her with a warm kiss on the cheek and announced that she was Mrs. Gladys Brooks, his high-school sweetheart. On the way back to Salina, Ike halted the motorcade once more at a drive-in melon market. He enthusiastically accepted a dripping slice of cantaloupe from the flabbergasted proprietors, bought two watermelons to take along with...