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...target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years to the time...
Tomas. Maurice and Tomas had fine times. They were stood in schoolhouse corners together and together they hunted rabbits on the downs, puffins', petrels', and gulls' nests on the cliffs. At Halloween they snared thrushes for a midnight roast, and once at Ventry, on the mainland, they got tipsy on ale and tobacco, gave a sharper a beating and watched great brawny Tigue...
Particularly in the Spring grumblings are heard in the Union and House Dining Halls about the constant reappearance of Steamed Indian Pudding, Foamy, and Sauce, Roast Prime Ribs of Beef aujus, on the menus. Lehman Hall has said "They always complain of the food in April," and it soons blows over...
...Astor, a Mellon, a Widener, a Baruch, a Pulitzer, two Du Ponts and many another notable, Franklin Roosevelt last week attended his first Gridiron Club dinner as President of the U. S. From the seat of honor in the Willard Hotel ballroom he watched Washington correspond- ents royally "roast" his New Deal in song and skit. Burlesqued before him was "a wonderland from which men in hair shirts have been expelled by men in asbestos pants." With a high wide grin he saw himself welcomed into the peerage of dictators by Russia's Stalin, Italy's Mussolini, Germany...
Answer3. Complete demoralization of currency, the spectre of post-War Germany, the nightmare of roast beef selling at $5,000,000 a pound, is still too far away for intelligent discussion...