Word: butter-and-egg
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...drab fact, Woody Allen is the son of Martin Konigsberg, a Brooklyn butter-and-egg man. He is the father of Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow. He lives with, or across Central Park from, actress Mia Farrow. He was twice married and divorced, and kept significant company with another of his co-stars, Diane Keaton. You know this already, and you won't learn much more about his sleeping habits here. Eric Lax is no Kitty Kelley; he seems to believe, with Vladimir Nabokov, that "the best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures...
...Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What can you say about a strike," says DeVer Sholes, the association's director of research and statistics, "except that...
Nonetheless, in Lower Manhattan's cobblestoned butter-and-egg wholesaling district, the cocky little National Stock Exchange made its debut amid the clink of champagne glasses and the clang of the trading gong...
While as a group the Minnesota delegation tops all, there is one Wisconsin Harvardian of my acquaintance who sets the individual record. This sterling product of the great butter-and-egg state condescends to go to the Soldiers Field games, but he never neglects to take along his own private portable radio, which he tunes in on the Badgers, only looking up every now and again just to see what his Second Love is doing down on the field below...
However, it is possible that no innocent student should wind his merry way to the Shubert unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed...