Word: mignone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times the nation had responded by giving the Democrats the presidency. Now they faced a sixth test, which promised to be the sternest of all. Girding for the battle, 6,000 Democratic leaders assembled in Washington and paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...
...course it's a pity Miss Josephine Baker did not get her filet mignon at the Stork Club just when she ordered it, but I don't think the incident is enough to send half the nation rushing about bellowing self-righteously in all directions as if the steak had been cut from their own hindquarters. Am I morally obtuse, or is there really a menace to the American Constitution entrenched on 53rd Street...
Three weeks later students at the Louisiana Girls' College struck back, gave 23 faculty members an intelligence test. Among the teachers' answers: they defined sequins as fish, named Al Jolson as a wrestling champion, Maraschino a Premier of Russia and Filet Mignon an opera by Puccini...
...only cut of horse meat which the Faculty Club buys is the loin or filet mignon, which is aged and seasoned with salt and black pepper for two weeks before it is cut into eight ounce steaks...
...inches longer," decreed the American Hair Design Institute. "Short, chopped effects and overly sleek lines should be avoided . . ." But that was not enough. To be chic, milady also had to deck her head with a chignon. The chignon (rhymes with filet mignon) is a batch of hair, tied, rolled or braided into shapes resembling a trayful of Danish pastries. It can be the lady's own hair if she's grown it long enough, or someone else's carefully matched and pinned in place...