Word: mignone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor should have been surprised. "They got the same warnings we did in Manila. That war was maybe days, perhaps even only hours, away." Lieut. Robert Boiling Kelly knew enough to "put aboard the thickest charcoal-broiled filet mignon" Manila could supply, so as to be ready for the attack...
...question comes to mind, why make it still worse with a name like that?...Me, I love a piece of good meat for dinner, but flesh...I'd never touch the stuff. If they ever start serving the genus Equus in America, let's call it Filly Mignon...
...like him and still be labeled "cute." Last week M'Toto's former owner, swank, socialite Mrs. E. Kenneth Hoyt, traveled from her Havana estate to see M'Toto and supervise a light lunch of eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume...
SPEAK NO EVIL-Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Married to a rich drunkard, Elizabeth Dakin nearly hangs for his shooting in their Jamaica, B. W. I. villa. Two other men want her, two other women don't. Add a slobbering male secretary and you have a hot time at old Montego...
...Lucia, Rigoletto, Mignon, Barber of Seville, Linda di Chamounix, Somnambula, Coq d'Or, Tales of Hoffmann, Lakmé (her favorite...