Word: cassandra
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...Peak Egg, an egg substitute, the London Daily Mirror's acidulous Columnist Cassandra wrote: "No hen ever laid egg or eyes on Peak Egg. . . . Take eight ounces of ordinary flour and two ounces of bicarbonate of soda, add a little dye and just a trace of gum. Mix well . . . relax and wait for the great unending public of British suckers...
...wartime London it looked as if Monty had swallowed too much for his ancient stomach. For ex-Cassandra Keynes, personal braintruster to ex-Cassandra Winston Churchill, has already seen his ex-radical fiscal ideas (notably compulsory savings) become an integral part of British national policy...
...Cassandra days, Mr. Keynes called the gold standard a "barbarous relic"; Mr. Norman, in his heyday, said "I am the gold standard...
...Home Office mumbled: "Only two persons were seriously injured." To this the Daily Mirror's indignant Columnist Cassandra roared: "Truly the Fascist disease sleeps easily in our bowels...
...Cried Cassandra of the Daily Mirror: "If our own military position does not permit of an assault on any single part of Hitler's 2,000-mile western front, then Russian hopes should not have been raised by the joint telegram from President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. . . . Five hundred hours ago! France crumbled in less time than that. Five hundred hours! Plenty of time to lose hope. Plenty of time in which...