Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laragh Station, a sheep "run" operated by the Brothers Regan. They are graduate gunmen of the Irish Republican Army who are busy populating their underpopulated principality with a brood of half-caste children, some named sentimentally for great figures of the Irish Troubles. Overproof Queensland rum is their drink; mutton is their food; and once a year a priest arrives on the scene to christen the new children, and to tell the elders that they are living in mortal sin. Mrs. Regan has been "married" to the two brothers in succession...
Scotching scuttlebutt that she is getting a Mexican divorce, Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, 43, gave the highest marks to her sixth husband, Tennisocialite Baron Gottfried von Cramm (whom she married last November, has seen often since). In London, Barbara declared: "Gottfried is the only one who has really wanted me to love him. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them. It upset them...
...mention the Kindness of the French Ladies to me. I must explain that matter. This is the civilest Nation upon Earth ... If 'tis understood that you like Mutton, dine where you will you find Mutton. Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented themselves) to be embrac'd, that is to have their Necks kiss'd. For as to kissing of Lips or Cheeks, it is not the Mode here: the first is reckon'd rude, and the other...
...pavilions overflow, and the surplus spills into the streets. Sides of mutton hang along the northern wall of the church of Saint Eustache; mountains of crated cabbages and oranges block the sidewalks for half a mile. Buyers for hotels, restaurants, retail groceries and butcher shops swarm and haggle, crunch over the crushed ice of the fish pavilion to finger white octopuses or boxes of shiny mackerel, delicately press ripe Camemberts and sniff critically at Bries. As dawn breaks, late partygoers pick their way gingerly across the littered gutters to one of the small, famed bistros like...
...Central Kitchen handles 16,000 pounds of meat a week, which includes items like 3700 pounds of boneless beef tops, 2200 pounds of mutton legs, 1900 pounds of fowl, 17000 pounds of chicken fryers, and 350 pounds of sausage meat...