Word: almond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve Russian performances amounted to $10,000 in rubles, none of which could he take out of the country. He earned half that much playing half an hour over the radio last Sunday night to advertise such Lehn & Fink products as Lysol, Pebeco toothpaste, Hinds' Honey & Almond Cream...
...Vumeri Hospital the cockroaches chirped, the patients rang bells, and the staff patiently waited in the sumptuous laboratory. Why the nurses and docses and doctors were peering through glass covered interstices into an immense box in the middle of the room the Vagabond furtively inquired. A mass of almond hair whispered that they were waiting for the reaction. Within the cubic cell were two poles placed upright and a sobbing boy sitting on the floor. The muscles of his cheeks contracted and relaxed spasmodically; his legs twitched. Dequuro, the god who warned the people of Ponguelano, on more serious occasions...
...lintel and strode into the chamber, followed by a waddling friar and--was it a dog? The Vagabond eyed the Beast fearfully, the hound-like body, the leathery gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...
Madame Butterfly (Paramount). Because Sylvia Sidney has almond-shaped eyes it was inevitable that one day she would be given a kimono and a mop of black hair on top of her head, taught to walk with mincing steps, compelled to use the adjective "velly" in a squeaky treble. She does it all as prettily as could be expected in Madame Butterfly, expensively handled as an individual production by Paramount's onetime production chief, Benjamin Percival Schulberg...
...Pisculli's medical kit were a hypodermic needle, a stethoscope, smelling salts, lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...