Word: cinnamons
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...ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper. In so doing, he has used only his remarkable nose and taste buds...
...living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere. He has been working-on it ever since. The unfinished manuscript (the fruit of more than 20,000 conversations...
...roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena to scent the room, and a hot plate over the fire on which she could make...
...James Thurber, Stuart Chase, Morgan follows a simple formula. He breaks all the rules. As a result he is the envy of every announcer who ever gagged politely while rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them at a dogfight." When the sponsor objected that his approach was "negative," Morgan retracted, said he would wear blue shoes to a dogfight...
Author Schoyer knows China and the Chinese about as well as any sympathetic foreigner can. When he is writing what he knows, he writes very well indeed-of the smells of fish and cinnamon in China's streets; of China's unfathomable deviousness and talent for compromise; of her cheerfulness, unpredictability, boundless vitality and courage. Samples...