Word: mignone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...soon as I entered the villa, Victor, with the hospitality of a gastronomic grand seigneur, led me to the kitchen and, opening the tremendous refrigerators, bared his culinary treasures. . . . There were mountains of the most beautiful sirloins, filet mignon, and chateaubriant, all the color of a pretty woman's lips; various cuts of lamb . . . capons, chickens and all sorts of birds. . . . I quickly decided on a filet to be broiled on hickory wood...
After consuming and partly digesting lobster bisque, filet mignon and half a dozen speeches, half a hundred of the nation's topflight scientists and mathematicians got up from the table in the University of Pennsylvania's Houston Hall. They trooped three blocks down the street to the Moore Electrical Engineering School, to witness the first public demonstration of the latest and greatest mechanical brain-a series of dials, 18,000 tubes and cabinets, occupying an entire room...
...ceiling for detective stories is 20,000 copies (it was somewhat lower before the war). Any author who sells in the 15,000 to 20,000 bracket is tops. In this bracket are writers like Erie Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Mabel Seeley, Mignon Eberhart, Craig Rice...
...lunched at King's house, on lobster, filet mignon, asparagus salad, raspberries a la mode. At Earnscliffe, stately home of British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald, he talked with Canadian Socialist Leader M. J. Coldwell. If they did more than exchange niceties, they kept it to themselves. At night there were Scotch highballs and more food-oysters, roast turkey, baked Alaska-at a state dinner at the swank Country Club...