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For a good time, records show the Shooting Club threw elaborate banquets. A menu from a banquet given for members of the club in 1887 showed that the expert shooters dined on patties of lobster, gloucester, croquettes of chicken auxpetits pois, spaghetti parmesan au gratin and banana fritters glace benedictine...

Author: By Kiratiana E. Freelon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Shooting Club: Reviving A Century-Old Tradition of Safe Sporting | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King -- "that bottled spider, that pois'nous bunch-back'd toad."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Artists Distort History | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

The sought-after appliance is aimed at the serious cook with serious money (list price: as much as $6,800). The most popular model is equipped with six porcelain-coated grates, a grill and two gas ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Viking To Lunch | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

"That bottled spider," Shakespeare called the last Plantagenet. "That pois'nous bunch-back'd toad." Other Tudor chroniclers-variously declaring that he arranged the murder of his brother, poisoned his own wife, usurped the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reconstituting Richard | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

"Ready to Jump." Annemarie's own taste runs to roast goose with red cabbage and homemade spatzle (noodles), and her idea of an ideal main course is roast duck served with white rice, artichoke bottoms and petits pois with a salad of romaine, watercress and little mandarins. No dieter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Over the Courses with Annemarie | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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