Word: allingham
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...When asked if the Allies' effort was worth the estimated 20 million lives lost, Harry Patch, 111, the last surviving British veteran of World War I, replied, "It wasn't worth one." Patch died just days after fellow British WW I soldier Henry Allingham, 113, passed away...
...easy to see why. Otsuka has planned every detail of the café, from the two months of training would-be butlers undergo to the grandfather clock by the fireplace to the leather volumes of obscure poetry (by that famous Victorian bard, William Allingham) that adorn the shelves. "There's no place like this, so we had to make it from our imagination," says Otsuka. It doesn't hurt that the food is surprisingly good, prepared with the help of Paul Okada, a hospitality consultant who spent 12 years as the food-and-beverage director at the Four Seasons Tokyo...