Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France's President Albert Lebrun and Premier Edouard Daladier went out to the B. E. F. area and lunched His Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long...
Anxious to roast Hell out of all the social sissies who waste other folks' money...
Nevertheless, University officials will roast over a fire of their own kindling. For -- again on the merits of bare facts -- the Communist leader should have been allowed to speak at Harvard in accordance with the earlier permit, in spite of his subsequent indictment. The case of the John Reed Society is considerably more convincing than the case of Mr. Greene. There is even a precedent which denies the stand taken by the University. In 1920, Norman Thomas--on trial before the New Yorks courts for violating a city speech ordinance,--was nevertheless granted permission to speak at Harvard...
Patriot Wang, though a Cantonese, has a horror of a characteristic Cantonese delicacy, roast snake. Once at an elaborate banquet he complimented his host on a dish he had never tasted before. Told it was "jumping dragon," a deadly Kwangtung snake, he called for water, washed his mouth over a dozen times, left the banquet, went to bed, called Cantonese physicians, was not satisfied until he had gone all the way to Peking and had his stomach examined. The snake Patriot Wang hates most of all is Wang Ching...
...found eleven lucky slum children quartered on a big estate with yew trees, sunken lawns, wrought-iron gates and a flock of servants to wait on them. When he arrived, the children were clinging to their delighted host's coattails, calling him "Uncle." They reported that they had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, were allowed to read...