Word: thermidor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never burned a cookie or fluffed a line, although she was "frightfully nervous when we did apple pie." CBS has imposed just two restrictions: no emphasis on brandy, rum or cooking wine, and no live food. Mrs. Lucas regards both taboos as utter nonsense: "Why, when we had lobster thermidor, I had to kill the lobsters before the program, and that's most unhealthy, you know." Next week, in the new last-word television studios CBS is opening in Manhattan, Mrs. Lucas will move into a last-word, specially built kitchen...
Robespierre never took that step. In keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...
...gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails in aspic and goose livers. In addition I have eaten two dozen oysters and a considerable quantity of fish, ranging from smoked salmon via tuna, sardines and anchovies to an enormous Dover sole. This mountain of food was obtained...