Word: mutton
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...street she shouts after you orai, which stands for "all right" but is actually a form of farewell. In Tokyo the taxis are takuski and the chauffeurs are doraibu. A knife is knaifu, butter is bata, scrambled eggs are sakurambu eggu, beefsteak is beefu teki, chocolate is chokoretto, a mutton chop is maton choppu, soup is soppu, a salad is sarado, celery is serari, a tumbler is koppu (cup). To the moga (modern girl) it is all a pain in the nekku...
...impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor of the London Spectator...
...British meat ration, which last month stood at 47? worth of meat per person per week, to 30? (15. 6d.).Two days later the Food Minister felt obliged to cut the meat ration to 23? (15. 2d.)-which at war prices means about 1 Ib. beef or 2 lb. mutton. Chickens are not rationed but cost 65? a lb. and most people cannot afford them. To most Britons this meant that the German counter-blockade had taken hold in grim earnest, although Lord Woolton offered an explanation: "There were excellent reasons for this [reducing the meat ration twice...
...parties of three, well-armed and on their guard against stabbings and shootings. When the soldiers bought eggs, they had to pay $1.20 a dozen, and then the Icelandic grocers had to be watched as they would put only ten in the bag. Icelandic diet was narrow. Mutton appeared in nearly every dish, stewed, boiled, broiled, roasted, fried. The weather was harsh, and the soldiers lived in tents which they ironically named
...just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what was left over of the Sunday joint. His boyhood was tough. At school he was caned. He grew to know history in a simple way; he grew to love his King as he loved the mist in the park on a summer's morning, the hedges...