Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stereotyped doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. In Georgia, last week, death came to a terrapin-hatcher (see p. 63). And in Georgia, 55 years ago, was born a man destined to be an expert marble-mover. This man, too, died, last week...
Since 1870, the Lotos Club has considered itself and been considered authoritatively epicurean in personalities as well as gastronomies. Paderewski and Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Mary Garden and Andrew William Mellon, are some of the figures who have been honored, variously, with its cocktails, terrapin and oratory. The senior Oliver Wendell Holmes attended in 1883 and punned for the lotophagi six times in one hour...
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...England, the Matamata terrapin at the London Zoo, having lain motionless in a corner of its tank for months, last week shoved out its legs, walked a short distance, drew in its legs, lay motionless...
...which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people in the stalls and boxes did not need to hear him; they too could have said everything he was saying, could have told about the cocktails at the Union Square Hotel, two for a quarter, about the terrapin and canvasback at the New York Hotel, about Tony Pastor's and Niblo's and golden Lillian Russell, gone now. Good songs they had then?the one about "Champagne Charlie...