Word: aspic
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...Evalyn McLean's, so exclusive as Mrs. Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
...Witch" Republic Pictures has done everything possible-to make these critics sublimely happy. The picture oozes tragedy from every pore. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, turns out right. The hero, that usually indestructible character, blunders into a hopeless jam and ends his days being squeezed into a fine aspic by the pressure in 100 fathoms of water. The heroine marries the villain in a fit of pique after her uncle has been burned to a crisp by the hero. Her life with the villain is very unhappy and she soon dies spouting cliches in the arms of the hero. The villain...
...kitchen as fast as it could. Television, being at the beginner's level, still spends a lot of its time in the kitchen. Most TV recipe shows are as flat as stale beer, but one stands out from the rest like a glistening grape in a flavorless aspic...
...germs, at least not very well, but they do not fool him. He knows there are armies of them all around him : hairy ones with mil lions of eyes, wiggly ones with transparent heads, sloppy ones shaped like tomato sur prises, stiff ones which look like piccolos in aspic. He never forgets that they are coming at him, morning, noon & night. But he is not intimidated. He fights them...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...