Dear all,
this from the story 'The Game' by Dorothy Parker (1948).
The dinner itself might well have been planned by the same mind that had devised the décor: black bean soup, crab meat and slivers of crab shell done in cream, roasted crown of lamb with bone tips decently encased in little paper drawers, tiny hard potatoes, green peas ruined by chopped carrots, asparagus instead of salad, and the dessert called, perhaps a shade hysterically, cherries Jubilee.
The dessert consists of black cherries and vanilla ice-cream. It is served being sprinkled with brandy and set on fire. Why hysterically?
this from the story 'The Game' by Dorothy Parker (1948).
The dinner itself might well have been planned by the same mind that had devised the décor: black bean soup, crab meat and slivers of crab shell done in cream, roasted crown of lamb with bone tips decently encased in little paper drawers, tiny hard potatoes, green peas ruined by chopped carrots, asparagus instead of salad, and the dessert called, perhaps a shade hysterically, cherries Jubilee.
The dessert consists of black cherries and vanilla ice-cream. It is served being sprinkled with brandy and set on fire. Why hysterically?
- of, relating to, characterized by, or suffering from hysteria.
- uncontrollably emotional or agitated:nearly hysterical after the accident.
- very funny; hilarious.