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...Atlantic City, N. J., David Thomas lost control of his automobile, drove it through the window of a delicatessen shop. The crash unseated him, hurled him head foremost into a barrel of pickles, submerged to the hips. He was fined $370 for driving while intoxicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Women | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...book, Fannie Hurst has taken care, as is her custom, to have a letter-perfect local nomenclature- Alms & Doepke, Shillito's, Pogue's, Rook-wood Pottery, Eden Park, Avondale. Her story starts in the '90s, when "Over the Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke, her wasp-waisted, full-bosomed, generously rounded figure tantalized the males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Blonde | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Archduke Leopold Ferdinand is at present proprietor of a successful delicatessen store in Vienna where, as Herr Leopold Wölfling, he sells the best of salami and olive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Unser Anton | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Shooting of Dan McGrew." The Wheel of Life (Paramount). To appear in this film Richard Dix, usually properly shaved, grew one of those brief mustaches which indicate to the cinema public that its wearer is a British officer. While he is buying her something to eat in the delicatessen next door, a veiled young woman in evening dress runs away from his apartment. Her action suggests ingratitude, for a few moments before Dix had kept her from committing suicide by jumping off London Bridge. In India later she is the blonde wife of a Colonel so elderly and so gallant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop or in the Great Atlantic & Pacific tea store, no matter what the box or price, all pepper tastes alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Condiment Crises | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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