Word: pheasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Convened without the usual formality of a Speech from the Throne because: 1) The King, who reads the Speech, was still convalescent at Sandringham, though well enough to shoot pheasants, eat pheasant morsels. 2) The Prime Minister, who writes the Speech from the Throne, was on high and rough seas...
They were loyal to Kaiser Wilhelm, to the last, and afterward. But today it is better to be a Republican, and to maintain at the Foreign Office the old standards of caviar, sturgeon, cold venison, pheasant and champagne...
...dedicated by onetime President Alexandre Millerand (TIME, April 23). Modest Culinary Immortal Dr. Gauducheau then explained that his discovery is quite simple, merely a shrewd adaptation of the physician's hypodermic and the chemist's skill to the problems of the chef. A pigeon, chicken, goose, pheasant, sheep, pig or even cow is firmly secured and a hypodermic injection made into the heart. Before this organ ceases to function the secret hypodermic fluid has penetrated through the veins and into the flesh, flavoring or coloring it as the art of the intrasauceur may require. Thus all crude flavoring...
...Pheasant was the illegitimate daughter of Maurice Vaughan, whose proffer of matrimony Meg had refused when she learned about Pheasant. On the return of Eden & Alayne, Pheasant is married to Piers. Soon, in this crowded turmoil of brothers and sisters, men and wives," there are readjustments. Renny and Alayne fall in love with each other, likewise Pheasant and Eden...
Finch, passing through the dark woods one night, hears Pheasant and Eden together, goes to tell Piers. Then Pheasant runs away to her father's house, until Renny and Piers go to bring her back to Jalna. Eden, too, flees the cold forests and the scornful, narrow fields of his bitter home. Alayne plans to return to New York and her old work, where one hopes that Renny will be her companion. Meg, the peg that holds the last of the story together, stops shuddering at the sins of Maurice...