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Jeanne Lanvin-Again Greek and Egyptian evening dresses, leg o' mutton sleeves and rudimentary bustles. Whole dresses of ribbon and chenille on net. Intricate sleeves, much button trimming. Coats flared from the shoulder rather than belted...
...Mutton 1 of Tyre, fled from her brother's tyranny and founded Carthage ("New City"). Hence she was called Dido ("The Fugitive"). She entertained Aeneas, runaway from Greek-destroyed Troy, before he went to Italy where his descendants founded the Roman Empire...
...unknown in Iceland, sprouted and flourished last summer. But the Icelanders were not particularly pleased. They obey by instinct Explorer Stefansson's rule: A people react with pleasure to a new food in proportion as they have been accustomed to a varied diet. Accustomed to an unvarying fish, smoked mutton, cheese and potato diet the Icelanders view green vegetables with alarm. They delight, however, in repeating that "Proportional to the number of Icelanders our Reykjavik is the largest capital city in the world!" By this they mean that one quarter of the population is concentrated in Reykjavik, whereas only 1/217...
...little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each cat seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize and drunk water, they flew out of the window none the worse for their handling by the cats. The fact was that neither cat liked to eat game with...
Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...