Word: tureen
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...London many a great baron of beef* was roasted. Many a vast tureen of steaming turtle soup was carried to that annual and immemorial feast, the Lord Mayor's banquet at Guildhall. This year the "new" Lord Mayor is Sir William Pryke, aged 78† and "spry as Peter...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...