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...Things That Breathe. Albert felt a sense of deep obligation to those who were not as well off as he. One day, when he won a friendly wrestling match with a bigger schoolmate, the loser complained: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...
...family" and supervised by a trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...
...Farewell. The travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...
...then grind into a paste. Roast the removed chile seeds, grind them together with the chocolate and all the other ingredients (except the sesame seeds). This makes two separate pastes. Put them together and fry in plenty of shortening, stirring constantly until thick. Then dilute with chicken or turkey broth to the consistency of cream soup. Pour all this over slices of boiled turkey, bring the entire dish to a boil for five minutes, serve sprinkled with sesame seed. Sop the sauce with tortillas. Be sure to serve plenty of napkins...
...this frivolity is pinned to a conventional story involving Astaire and Rogers as a couple of hoofers. Astaire has gone and joined the Navy when Miss Rogers, a fine broth of a lass, refuses to marry him on the grounds that matrimony will ruin her career. The picture depicts Astaire's return and Rogers' reconciliation, as well as a more or less uninteresting subplot about another sailor and another girl. But the characters seem happy enough all the way through, and it is evident that none of them takes the plot too seriously...