Word: custards
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...Socalled 'scrambled eggs' were uninviting. The eggs were not really scrambled but were broken and mixed with milk and then beaten and cooked, resembling egg custard more than scrambled eggs...
...this custard's awful junk. He said bring it back if it wasn't right. No, I can't now. I forgot and ate it all. Well, that's just another he's gypped today...
...variety of offerings served, the audience is requested to take what it likes and leave the rest. That is a capital idea. Unfortunately theatrical limitations impose upon Miss Stewart's revue, as indeed upon all others, the table d'hote principle. You cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy doll, breezes across the stage like melody and floats away on a fancy that all the rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot...
...Much Custard...
...cream in TIME sometimes surfeits by its very fatness, richness. Too much custard! It must sicken the average mind. Reading TIME is like seeing Hamlet or Macbeth with all the relief scenes left out. Nothing in TIME stands out in relief, because it all stands out, it is all raised to a high pitch, elevation-as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read...