Word: shank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles out fourth-rate wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them to lap up casks of vintage Vaiano. When the baron...
...next 26 years Reporter Davis seemed to visit every country and to cover every war-at $1,000 a week plus expenses. In England Davis hobbed so intimately with the nobs that the P.M., Arthur Balfour, used to drop by at his rooms for a shank-of-the-morning snack. In Venezuela he ate his first avocado, promptly introduced the fruit to the U.S. market. In Cuba he wrote fiery dispatches that, front-paged by Hearst, helped to push the U.S. into war with Spain; and once war was declared, R.H.D.'s spectacular reports on the Rough Riders helped...