Word: terrapins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some years before, he had made a trip to Washington and stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked the way the Mayflower had gone through the financial wringer and come out making money. He bought...
...late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans...
...cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer...
...hotels, Democrats tried hard to whip themselves into a festive spirit. There was terrapin soup, breast of capon, and plenty of champagne. (The Statler served a dessert called "bombe atomic.") At the Statler, preliminary speakers included Sam Rayburn, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas in a fetching white dress, and Alben Barkley. At the Mayflower, there were Fannie Perkins in a beaded dress, The Bronx Boss Ed Flynn -who almost forgot to stand up during the playing of the Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there...
...rest. The last of the grand hotels grossed $16,500,000 last year, more than any hotel ever took in anywhere, and in spite of stiff costs it began to make a little profit. Service began to slip a bit, but terrapin and Irish golden plover was still on the menu. Anyway, Boomer had found that guests now paid more attention to who was in the floor show than to what was on the menu...