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Porcellian ("Pork") Club, oldest (1790) of Harvard's "finals," was founded by undergraduates who sat around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...
...Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other hotelman, Sam Shaw was bothered by the problem of washroom literature. He solved the problem by putting up in the men's lavatory...
...Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison, but he spends Ramadan with his people. Short time ago he swore that this would be his last, abdicated in favor of his son who is now old enough to roast through Ramadan in his place...
...brief career of trying to squash his opponent into submission. If he becomes a yokozuna (champion) he may tie a piece of straw rope around his waist and consort with the highest personages, but even for the yokozuna pay is small, consisting mostly of patrons' contributions and roast pigs and bottles of sake sent by admirers. Soon the wrestler has his hair cut, retires to a lethargic O-shaped...
Then the posse turns its attention to the others, deciding to burn the house down. "Don't shoot 'em, boys," somebody warns. "We want to roast 'em!" "De Lawd won't let 'em do it," says big Black...