Word: broccoli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearly a decade ago a New Yorker cartoon by Carl Rose showed a mother urging broccoli on an emancipated child whose response became immortal: "I say it's spinach-and I say to hell with it." To designers, spinach is not only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives...
...Genesee Depot the Lunts live in a converted chicken house during their vacations, raise choice broccoli, cantaloupe, a wide variety of herbs, vegetables and flowers, swim in the swimming pool that Design for Living paid for, pamper their dachshunds Elsa and Rudolf, indulge in fancy cookery, their mutual hobby. It is the same farm, lovingly elaborated, where Alfred lived as a boy. Natives still call him Bill, a nickname he got from worshipping a boyhood hero, Buffalo Bill...
...view in Manhattan last week were 31 which included: a lazy peon sound asleep on the back of a patient donkey, his head on a blanket of bright green broccoli; a toothsome slant-eyed dancing girl, pigtails and red skirts whirling; a bug-eyed Mussolini, giving the Fascist salute; a scrawny-necked bass viol player in the wreck of a brown frock coat; an Indian dancer of Oxaca in a tremendous headdress of flowers and shells. Priced at $25 to $250, they sold fast. Seven were gone a week after the show opened. The sedate Metropolitan Museum of Art owns...
...Broccoli Mornay...
...Learned from Minister of Agriculture Sir John Gilmour that Britain's emergency tariff on industrial products (TIME, Nov. 30) will shortly be extended to tax up to 100% imports of fresh cherries, currants, gooseberries, hothouse grapes, plums and strawberries ; fresh asparagus, green beans, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, chicory, cucumbers, endive, lettuce, mushrooms, green peas, new potatoes, tomatoes and turnips; cut flowers, plants in flower, bulbs, foliage and rose trees...