Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts of a young bull ... a master mechanic in the art of seduction...
Such a deal would assure Saskatchewan farmers first cut at the prime British market for bacon once held by the Danes. But there was a catch in it. Like other Britons, the chiefs of the British cooperatives were also worried about markets for British export goods. Before they invested in Saskatchewan, said Minister McIntosh, the British cooperatives wanted to know whether postwar Canada was prepared to lower its tariffs on British goods. Patently that was a concession that neither the C.C.F. nor Saskatchewan could make: it was a matter, of overall Dominion politics...
...closest approach to a popular subject. This was salt. Something strange and terrible happened to the people in the Southern states when the northern blockade deprived them of salt. The 9,000,000 Confederates had used 300,000,000 Ibs. of salt a year, most of it in curing bacon. Humans were weakened through lack of salt in their diet, and Lee's horses suffered hoof and tongue diseases. Determinedly after the subject, Dr. Lonn spent five years studying the archives at Raleigh, Montgomery, Jackson, New Orleans, Atlanta...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...
Married. Agnes Pyne Bacon McLean, 29, golden-haired Manhattan heiress (National City Bank), former wife of Socialites John R. ("Jock") McLean of Washington and Robert 0. ("Bunty") Bacon Jr. of Newport; and Ronald ("Ronnie") Hudson, 27, Australian-born in surance man; he for the first time; in Manhattan...