Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frodo Baggins of Bag End, who has been bequeathed the ring by a rich old cousin. Frodo is a hobbit. Hobbits are under three feet tall, eat six meals a day, like to give parties, and both the rich and the poor live in holes. Hobbits are "soft as butter . . . and yet sometimes as tough as old tree-roots." In the end, of course, hobbits turn out to be more like people than people. Frodo is a happy hobbit who whiles away his "tweens"-the "irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three." Only...
Virgin Sauce. For 1 person, place 5 tablespoons butter in a hot bowl, add ¼ teaspoon salt, beat with a whisk until the butter foams, put it over hot but not boiling water for an instant. The butter must not melt. When the butter foams, add drop by drop, never ceasing to whisk, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon tepid water. When they are well amalgamated with the foaming butter, add 1 tablespoon whipped cream and serve at once. This sauce is delicious with cold fish. It is something apart...
...turn it over in the pan. Mix 1½ tablespoons flour and 4 tablespoons granulated sugar, and 1 pinch of salt. Add these to the well-beaten yolks of 6 eggs. Blend well, and then fold into the well-beaten whites of 6 eggs. Melt ¼lb. butter in a large, deep, iron frying pan. Pour the mixture into this. Cook over a slow flame for 3 to 4 minutes. Then place under the broiler and cook slowly for 3 to 4 minutes longer. Put in a slow oven for 2 to 3 minutes longer. While you are cooking this...
...made up of excerpts from Mickey's first film, the 1927 Plane Crazy, through The Lonesome Ghosts to the magical antics of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Not the least remarkable feature of this fine new show was the fact that even the commercials for Peter Pan peanut butter were, by virtue of being Disney-made, nearly as inventive and wonderful as the show itself. Disneyland is certain to be a winner...
...when Mendes, in his special train, barreled down to Marseilles to attend the 41st annual convention of his Radical Socialist Party. A party of seasoned individualists whose mixed-up politics have been likened to radishes ("Red on the outside, white inside, and surrounded with plenty of butter"), the Radicals were, as usual, quarreling. When Mendes appeared on the tribune, the tumultuous crowd of businessmen, lawyers and well-to-do farmers fell silent without a word of command...