Word: soups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that it was one of the most valuable historical finds in recent years...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...many a crisis. The contest was predicted to last three days and fifteen hours, meals being supplied by a neighboring restaurant, also patronized by Harvard undergraduates: There were five policemen added to the beat, on account of various threats of brickbats through a window and caffein tablets in the soup of the man who seemed to be carrying his class to victory. There is a room in Still-man infirmary and two trained nurses held in readiness for the first to succumb...
...their favorite liqueur? Creme de menthe! I suppose because they like the green color and sickly sweetness." Asked what wines he would serve at a dinner of connoisseurs, Mr. Reeves-Smith quickly replied, "If some men were coming in to dine with me, we would have Sherry with the soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion...
...tious clergy and royalty. Pantagruel's father, Gargantua, had set the pace, rid ing into battle upon a Numidian mare whose tail was so long that by whisking it a few times she knocked down a forest. During the battle, Captain Tripet, enemy, gives up four potsful of soup...