Word: borsht
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...first blink, Boris Morros seemed unlikely for the part. With his late-Picasso haberdashery, borsht-and-bagel accent, and a personality as outgoing as a trombone, he had small chance of being inconspicuous among the grey and shadowy cadres of Soviet espionage. Also, as music director for Paramount theaters and Paramount Studios, later as an independent movie producer, he was a conspicuously successful man in a business that has no passion for anonymity...
Heir to the blood of the fathers is Meier Borsht, tradesman, the vicissitudes of whose strong-witted life follow the pattern of his dark-bearded ancestors, whose adventures and generations Robert Neumann relates with prodigal invention...