Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dinner was long and formal?too formal for Ambassador Dawes, master of diplomatic informality. Even before dessert was passed, Ambassador Dawes got up from his place and wandered off to talk to old friends at another table...
...brands of Champagne are Clicquot Veuve, R. Bollinger and G. H. Mumm. Generally speaking the correspondence of wines to food is : red meat - red wine ; white meat - white wine. Markedly sweet wines, however, are not to be served with meat at all. Thus Sherry goes with either soup or dessert, Châateau Yquem always with dessert. As to preparing wines for the table, white vintages should be well iced in bottle; but red wines ought to be decanted some hours before serving, placed in the dining room, and allowed gradually to assume its temperature. Absolutely ruinous to the bouquet...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...Stop thief!" cried the coatroom attendant, having discovered that Statesman Lloyd George was still at his dessert. "Stop thief...
...good dinner, the dessert of a musical comedy should come just before the fingerbowls, and the Puddingers serve it properly in Act If when C. E. Henderson '28, who has been continually, stopping the show with his new song, gags, antics and weird instruments, gets together the Five Nations to do a little pre-Pilgrim harmonizing. No wonder the Indians in this country were wild...