Word: mignon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-tie crush of an affair. The City of New York, a lavish host, had rented the main ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria for the occasion. Over turtle soup and filet mignon, and through a few innocuous speeches, everyone would ignore the war in Korea for the moment, be friendly and smiling for each other and the photographers. Hence the whole thing, like past U.N. banquets, would be unreal, in a pleasant sort of way, and also somewhat dull...
...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
...homeward-bound Wall Streeter stopped at Manhattan's Washington Market one afternoon last week to pick up an order of filet mignon. When he found it was $2.25 a pound, up from $1.90 the week before, he canceled the order. Said he valiantly: "I'll eat money. It's cheaper...
Moth-Eaten Scarecrow. Despite the confusion and the roaring babble set off by the throngs on the floor and in the galleries, dinner was deftly served. To the unconcealed awe of all, the filet mignon was hot when it arrived. The food had been prepared in the kitchens of the Mayflower and Statler Hotels and had been rushed to the armory in special heater-equipped trucks. An army of 625 waiters was on hand to serve it. The serving-men were drilled as meticulously as a troop of light cavalry and they were controlled by an intricate traffic-light system...
...McCarthy's showy and opulent new Shamrock Hotel. In causing its white, glass-tiered, palm-bordered bulk to rise above the Texas coastal plain, McCarthy endowed Houston with the Southwest's most luxurious hostelry-a soft-carpeted, $21 million palace which boasts French cooking (filet mignon: $11), air-conditioned bedrooms with both push-button radio and Muzak, afternoon tea served to string music and big-name dinner entertainers like Edgar Bergen and Dorothy Lamour...