Word: bab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international smart set's Lady Mendl, eightyish, tempted the palates of Vogue readers with her own recipes for some dishes that mother never even thought of making, e.g., Kidneys Ali-Bab ("brown one pound of veal kidneys . . . set aflame with a glass of brandy...
...Bab," repited the master, "they will go Swift past Smith and Williams, past Moat and Cassel to Blake through the Big Red Lynn...
After a few announcements of coming attractions, NBC and Du Mont signed off for a while. CBS switched to a Jackson Heights supermarket for a customer-participation show called Missus Goes A-Shopping. While the camera lingered over signs advertising Bab-O, Sweetheart Soap and Mueller's Macaroni, a bubbling master of ceremonies asked some small children to imitate animals...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...
...which, plus the Bab Ballads with Gilbert's own illustrations, are included in this reissue...