Word: souffl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste had the mimicking lunchers floored for the moment, but the King's personal, scarlet-clad footmen signaled to the Château's blue-uniformed corps (one for every two guests) that the rest might...
Forty thousand spectators, limp and hoarse, agreed that the race they feared might be as exciting as a warmed-over soufflé turned out to be just what last spring's publicity had promised: "the race of the century"-even more thrilling than the great Man o' War-Sir Barton (1920) and Papyrus-Zev (1923) match races...
Hard-working John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England, is famed for such narrative poems as The Everlasting Mercy and Reynard the Fox, has written 42 books of poetry, plays and fiction, has never achieved a first-rate novel. His latest attempt is neither satire, soufflé nor good red socialist herring, but a baffled British book...