Word: plankington
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...young Philip D. Armour I made money ditching water to placer mines. In a rough-&-tumble life, he was rougher than most and tumbled with the sturdiest. After four years he went home to Cazenovia, rich and restless; then to Milwaukee, where? he went into pork packing with John Plankington, after whom the Plankington Hotel there was named, It's bartenders used to be adept at mixed drinks; its present chef prepares a capon just a little less appetizingly than does the chef of the Winthrop Hotel at Tacoma, Wash...
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