Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fateful incident: 1) "We put on our club dress-the blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took a little hock; 4) we went on to roast duckling with a truly magnificent claret, St. Emilion Clos Fourtet 1943, I believe; 5) this was followed by oeufs benedictines . . . The second claret-by tradition we always take...
Like Oscar Wilde's strong-minded dowager, Lady Bracknell, Madame de Sévigné held that "health is the primary duty of life." She was her daughter's full-time amateur diagnostician, strongly opposed to bloodletting, but an advocate of "viper soup," i.e., snake consomme. Often Madame de Sévigné sounds rather like a faded copy of "Versailles Confidential." ("At one fell stroke the other day, the Queen lost 20,000 crowns and missed hearing Mass.") Letter-Writer De Sévigné is more fun when she is consciously making her own mots...
...years Madame Chiang Kai-shek has suffered from a nerve ailment that causes painful skin rashes. Recently, her friends noted a sudden improvement in her condition, asked her what had happened. Reportedly replied Madame: "My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. I advise...
...could give their teachers a raise. But no one expected that his gesture would have much effect. The meek were up in arms and on the verge of the biggest display of teacher defiance in British history. As a matter of fact, Sir David would probably be in the soup no matter what he decided to do. "If he showed himself in our staff room," said one teacher from Peterborough, "he would be lucky if he were not tarred and feathered on the spot...
...latest step in Japan's Westernization is an entrechat. In Tokyo alone there are an estimated 600 ballet schools, where round-faced girls in soup-bowl haircuts and black leotards are stretching their bodies at exercise bars. On the sidelines most mothers nod approvingly, but some older Japanese nurse a suspicion that the strange movements will make the girls barren. Ballet movies are a sensation, and at least one of them (Red Shoes) started a teen-age craze .for carrying ballet slippers, whether the owners were studying ballet or not. Dozens of school companies present productions whenever they...