Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made over by Stanford White as a reproduction of the court of Louis XVI; Réjane was imported from France to recite Racine; the floor of the supper-room was strewn with rose petals. Lehr made more gossip at the ball by refusing diamond-back terrapin and the finest wines, eating only hard-boiled eggs and drinking only cold milk...
Blue Points on the half shell, bisque of oyster crab, consomme a la Russe, bouchees of terrapin Maryland style, celery, olives, chutney, and boiled pompano, maitre d'hotel...
YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF TOMATOGROWER WALTER P. CHRYSLER'S YIELD IN THE MARYLAND TEN-TON CLUB AS "SHAMEFUL" [TIME, Nov. 26], PROMPTS ME AS HIS PROSPECTIVE TERRAPIN DINNER GUEST TO RUSH TO HIS DEFENSE WITH CORRECT FACTS AND FIGURES. TOMATOGROWER CHRYSLER PRODUCED 9.05 TONS OF LOVE APPLES INSTEAD OF 7.95 TONS REPORTED IN TIME 7.95 TONS FOR SOUPMAKER PHILLIPS' DELECTABLE CONCOCTIONS AND 1.10 TONS MARKETED ELSEWHERE. THE COMBINED YIELD REPRESENTS NEARLY DOUBLE THE NORMAL YIELD IN THE U. S. DESPITE MOST UNFAVORABLE WEATHER CONDITIONS. BUT FOR ABNORMALITIES OF TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL DURING THE GROWTNG SEASON TOMATOGROWER CHRYSLER WOULD EASILY HAVE EATEN...
...Tomatoman Chrysler and Soupman Phillips heartily enjoy their terrapin...
Last spring Soupmaker Albanus Phillips (Phillips Packing Co.) wagered a diamond-back terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes an acre on his Dorchester County, Md., estate. Gentleman-farmer Chrysler dispatched a fleet of trucks to Florida, imported the finest half-grown plants, had them tended daily. Last week the tomatoes were harvested, weighed. The costly Chrysler tomato patch had produced the shameful yield of 7.95 tons an acre...