Word: asparagus
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...familiar Gilbertian shreds and patches. Again you see the playwright, with the help of a Latin Little Buttercup, mix those children up, and not a creature knew it. Again, in republican Barataria, he puts down the mighty from their seat; and "ambassadors and such as they grow like asparagus in May, and dukes are three-a-penny." But the music, the whole atmosphere of the piece, is a different matter. It is flowing, Verdian, Rossinian, lightly serious, made of Latin lyricism, not of English lung-power...
Burglars entered the Paris home of James Hazen Hyde, onetime vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Society, overlooked a safe and an art collection, ate some asparagus...
Ambassador Edge had more than an official interest in the embargo. He is heartily fond of greens. Objecting to the pale and bloated asperge blanche of France, he imports his own green asparagus from New Jersey. The Ambassador frequently chomps in Paris a crisp U. S. apple. Last week 500 tons of such apples, valued at $100,000, lay on the docks at Havre, kept out of the country as suspected carriers of the pernicious San José scale (TIME, March...
...Learned from Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour that Britain's emergency tariff on industrial products (TIME, Nov. 30) will shortly be extended to tax up to 100% imports of fresh cherries, currants, gooseberries, hothouse grapes, plums and strawberries ; fresh asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, chicory, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, mushrooms, green peas, new potatoes, tomatoes and turnips; cut flowers, plants in flower, bulbs, foliage and rose trees...
...valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...