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London’s Gay Hussar, where generations of Labour M.P.’s have been spooning up chilled cherry soup, chicken paprikash and other once-exotic Hungarian fare in caricature-covered Soho surroundings since the 1950s, is, frankly, dowdy.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2013

While you have been spooning under the spreading chestnut tree, I've been wrestling with the electric dynamos; and the sight of even bread and cheese would melt me to tears.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles