Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next to frankfurters the soldier likes baked ham. Then roast veal and sausage. Fifteen per cent of all roast beef, bacon and cold cuts goes back to the kitchen, 25% of liver. Never strong for green vegetables, the soldier especially detests kale. He likes baked potatoes next to mashed...
...arrived in England last week as South Africa's new High Commissioner. It was a great joke in Britain when, full of friendship and good will, he breezed into a London hotel and told the waiter: "I am an easy man to please; just bring me some bacon and two eggs." Most Britons have not seen two eggs together for many months...
...more than two decades Artist Peggy Bacon has been impartially decapitating friend & foe with neat strokes of her pen, pastel and pencil. She has also illustrated children's books. Last week a huge retrospective exhibition of Baconiana at Manhattan's Associated American Artists Galleries gave gallery-goers a chance to see what her art added up to. Of 142 exhibits, covering the walls of four large rooms, Bacon-lovers saw 35 pastels (including twelve caricatures of men & women who nevertheless remain Miss Bacon's friends), 74 drypoints (including The Socialist Meeting and Backstairs Gossip), 13 etchings (including...
...emphasis in this show was not on caricature. A less famous side of Artist Bacon's work was revealed in her increasingly Daumier-like preoccupation with the seamier side of life. Like Honore Daumier, with whose work hers has often been compared, Peggy Bacon has descended the social ladder to portray Manhattan's grimmest alleys, its courtrooms, bars, garish streets at night, garbage cans crawling with kittens, drunks at home the morning-after. Result: her art is more inclusive and more subtle without becoming less satiric...
...things along he rounded up a wide-awake, corner-cutting engineering staff, set up large machine shops to make boilers and engines, shape every piece of steel used in a West-built ship. Things went well until after World War I, when shipbuilding collapsed. The thing that "saved the bacon," says Charlie, was the machine division, which promptly turned to heavy items like industrial cranes, dredges, cement and paper-mill machinery...