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Word: terrapins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have given pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Brice because she left his Follies a month before she was to have a baby. He owned six custard-colored Rolls-Royces, hunted in Canada with five Indian guides, traveled in a private railroad car, kept a private barber and a succession of private chefs. His favorite food was terrapin. Pressagents complained because he telephoned them at 7 a. m. When a big news story broke the day he sailed for Europe, his name failed to appear on the first page. He wired his pressagent: "Sorry you sneaked me out of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Samuel T. Shaw, deaf, white-haired, was once an art student but he went into the hotel business to make more money. With Simeon Ford, chief rival of Chauncey Depew as an after dinner speaker in the terrapin stew era, he owned the lamented Grand Union Hotel on 42nd Street. The Grand Union vied with Delmonico's and the Café Lafayette for the best food in the city. Its Hasenpfeffer and roast oysters were famed. It boasted a vast T-shaped bar at which beer was dispensed from the transepts, mixed drinks along the nave. Like every other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fakirs Resurrected | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...they could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boies Would Be Boies | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...rain spoiled a rodeo at Miller's 101 Ranch in Ponca City, Okla. Turtles came out after the rain and someone had the idea of racing them instead of horses. Last week 10,000 entries arrived in poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Terrapin | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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