Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms aft...er dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards,... Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They own Spode, Lowestoft, candelabra, Mantels, and hostess gowns, and sunburst clocks,... Turtle soup, Chippendale, red stain "hangings," Aubussons and Hattie Carnegie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats,... And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup!... Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"To dine!" she shrieked in dragon-wrath. "To swallow wines all foam and froth!... To simper at a table-cloth!" Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find solace in the soup?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »