Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recipe. In El Paso, the County Attorney considered a loaf of bread concocted by Baker Dionicio Suarez, ruled that it "did then & there contain added deleterious ingredient, to wit, a razor blade, which then & there rendered such article of food injurious to health...
This unprecedented procedure set off a series of scandals which startled even the most resigned of Philadelphians. The head of the amusement-tax division hanged himself. A water-department official slashed his wrists with a razor blade (he had been taking bribes for jamming the mechanism of city meters and handing out free water to those who paid off). One official was cited for impeachment and 16 were indicted by a grand jury...
...current Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wolfson describes a woman's tongue which had turned brownish-black; the tips of the taste buds had grown long and hairlike, and "bent like the nap of wet, heavy velvet when stroked with a tongue blade...
...open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
...Games. From such macabre work, one might imagine Rose to be a hollow-eyed ascetic; actually he is a gay little blade whose 39 years have been a brilliant whirligig of international fun and games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...