Word: venison
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...seeking to put the center in a particularly American rural setting, they could hardly have chosen better. The low, hickory-wooded hills around the town were once the home of Winnebago and Pottawatomi Indians. The region's first settler was Thaddeus Morehouse, who opened a tavern to sell venison and whisky (at 25? a gallon...
...patients whose ulcers are still active, there are such conventional horrors as poached eggs and milk toast. But for quiescent ulcers, there is a wide range, from broiled beefsteak, boiled lobster, venison and wild duck to cheesecake and pumpkin pie. Still on the forbidden list (along with strong drinks): pork, nuts, baked beans, clams, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, radishes and cucumbers...
...Labor government nationalized steel, but it was a halfhearted gesture, made without conviction. In the final debates, steel nationalization was not argued as a good or necessary step but defended as a perseverance in dogma. One Socialist minister, as doctrinaire as they come, conceded over a plate of venison that all the other nationalization proposals (such as sugar) were only so much window dressing in the last election...
...issue (circ. 225), reporting TERRIBLE FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO (which had happened six months before), was edited by Willard Richards, Prophet Smith's secretary. It was printed on presses shipped from the East; the early Latter-Day Saints had paid the expenses by chipping in beans, hams and venison. Today's Latter-Day Saints are still made to feel responsible for the paper's support. The church sends the paper free to a nonsubscribing Mormon for two weeks. Then, if the new reader wishes to cancel the "subscription," he is expected to notify Apostle Petersen first...
Ever since the 17th Century, Britons have drunk a sherry called "Bristol Milk." Samuel Pepys wrote in its praise. The entry in his diary of June 13, 1668 reads: ". . . and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all, Bristol milk...