Word: ambrosia
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...Long Island City, Augustine d'Ambrosia, 19, threw Frank Santonica, 17, to safety from in front of a subway train, was crushed to death himself. His right leg broken, body and face lacerated, Santonica denied suicidal intentions, exclaimed : ''Gee, he must have been a game...
...after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising than the every-day fare...
...Flynn's. The New York World: "To read that 'Fifth Avenue stretched its lancelike length in mirrored sheen,' to read of a party that was 'a modernized version of a Bacchanalian revel with a pseudo-Egyptian setting,' and of a kiss that was 'ambrosia, sipped from a rare chalice' . . . almost any reader might be pardoned for thinking the Commissioner had been an author all his life...
Tomorrow evening in Stelnert Hall Palmira Tagliabue Delamano, planist, and Mario Mantini, violinist. Their programme includes Franck's Sonata in A Major, a Berceuse of Faure; Vicuxtemps Ballade of Polonaise; a Scherzo of Chopin and the First Concerto in B Minor of D'Ambrosia...
Gods have ambrosia for breakfast. Kings, presumably, have tarts. Presidents, New England Presidents, have whole-wheat and whole-rye cereal. This was the breakfast order that President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...