Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other breeders, some as far away as Czechoslovakia. A pair of black muskrats used to bring him $50, twice as much as he gets now. Almost all the skinned muskrats are sold to markets in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Sometimes the meat is retailed as "marsh rabbit," sometimes as terrapin...
...scissor-minded child prodigies like Desmond Tester have not been tampering with the parachutes. In the "B" deck dining salon gourmets from Scotland Yard (like John Loder) may have their Martinis mixed, not shaken, and may pick at turbot after having had a try at some clear soup, probably terrapin. The fare will be ?65, the flying time, 18 hours...
...political duty by addressing a Victory Dinner at Newark, N. J.-best described the spirit of the occasion when he wrote that the dinners were "backed by a big enough election triumph to justify serving stewed elephants." The 1,300 Mayflower diners ate their way in triumph through terrapin soup, pompano, breast of capon, coupe nougat quarante-six (Maine & Vermont excepted). But when Franklin Roosevelt rose and began to speak, the levity ended. His first few words were spoken with his most studied earnestness. He was addressing the electorate far more than his Party, and the listeners in his presence...
...Horatio Alger. On one occasion when a Texas friend lost his favorite dog, Colonel Phillips dispatched a "blue-blooded" Irish setter to replace the loss, shipping the animal in a special plane piloted by "America's Flying Stenographer." Even better publicized was his wager of a diamondback terrapin dinner that Walter P. Chrysler could not raise ten tons of tomatoes on one of Mr. Chrysler's neighboring acres (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Mr. Chrysler lost. Lately the Colonel's large face and broad shoulders have been appearing in Phillips soup advertising in the same way that...
...good Democrat, he picked Andrew Jackson. The occasion was the Democratic Party's Jackson Day Dinner in Washington. The meal cost 2,000 diners $50 per plate- $5 for food and $45 for the Party's campaign chest. When he had eaten tomato stuffed with lobster, diamondbacked terrapin soup, breast of capon, hearts of palm salad and other things, the 32nd President of the U. S. arose and broadcast as follows on the 7th President...