Word: venison
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...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
...trapping but buying skins from the Indians. Dissension in the colony itself had measurably lessened. So they decreed a special day of thanksgiving that all "might rejoyce together." Four men were sent to shoot waterfowl. Friendly Indians presented five deer, so for three days the Pilgrims gorged "on venison, roast duck, roast goose, clams and other shellfish ... all washed down with wine 'very sweete & stronge.' " Then they settled down to another winter of malnutrition...
...Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General Smuts carried in his saddlebags, along with his biltong (dried venison) and coffee, a Greek Testament and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In retrospect, he seems to have fought not so much for a free Boer State as for a more tolerant British imperialism. But he fought to the very end, to the war's last action...
...lodge brother. In Chicago, Mrs. Jewel L. Maloney won a divorce after complaining that her husband had reneged on his promise to wash the dishes, make the beds, do the housecleaning. In San Francisco, Mrs. Margaret E. Dayton, who complained that her husband constantly made her eat venison, won a divorce on the ground of cruelty...