Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner (terrapin soup, breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were...
...world of letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...over the bloody year of 1942, recalled baked lobster Savannah, soft-shell crabs, roulade of sand crabs, jugged saddle of hare, monies marinières, rack of lamb, shrimp Creole, Strasbourg foie gras, Dom Perignon champagne, pompano belle meunière, venison steak grand veneur, shad roe bonne femme, terrapin stew, escallopini of veal, oysters Rockefeller, pheasant in casserole and eggs gashouse. . . . Concluded the Lucullan Lucius: "Betcha it won't be like this next year...
...dared call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...
...damp peat moss, they can be shipped any distance. Thirty days after being unpacked and put in the soil, the eggs hatch; 90 days later they become adults laying eggs of their own. Earthworms make a wonderfully nourishing and relatively cheap food for poultry, hatchery fish, market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry diet-sprouted grain mixed with worms and worm-egg capsules. Fed on this at a cost of one-tenth of a cent a day, pullets start laying Grade A hen's eggs before...