Word: marengo
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...Chair, onetime M.P. and officer in the Royal Horse Guards, has edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
...What in heaven's name is Chicken Marengo?" whispered the diner, bemused prototype of millions of restaurant guests. "I don't know," his wife whispered back. "Why don't you ask the waiter?" The gentleman looked embarrassed. "Certainly not," he said. "I will order the hamburger steak...
Last week, an unexpected champion arose for the millions who cannot tell Chicken Marengo* from Escalope de Foie Gras Talleyrand† from Surprise Omelet Milord- from apple pie a la mode.†† The champion was a writer for Budapest's Communist daily Vilagossag, who (he related in his column) recently walked into a "people's restaurant" and promptly had his appetite ruined by an item on the menu called Tournedos a, la Metternich.*Nor was this all. Austria's great conservative statesman, "this symbol of European reaction," was joined on the menu by a symbol...
LABOR The Marengo Campaign For John Llewellyn Lewis the week began in acute suspense. It ended in one of the greatest victories of his thunderous career, after a battle which John pompously compared to Napoleon's bitter campaign on the plains of Marengo...
...There will be makeshifts and stunts. Playgoers will share their cars and form taxi groups. One producer has acquired a hay wagon. Marengo, Ill. dolled up in Gay-Nineties style, drove to the play in buggies...