Word: dessertation
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...chair to the table, he saw too many of the charms of the charming lady beside him; she was fashionably undressed above the waist. On her he bestowed one enfolding glance; then through every course but the last he courteously ignored her to her distress. For his dessert, he judiciously chose a ripe red apple, peeled it and halved it with care. On the charming lady's plate he set one half. "Why?" she smiled innocently back at him. "You must eat it," he admonished her, "for when Eve ate the apple she knew she was naked and felt...
...Saturday academic dessert however, has lost its barrenness for today, and has acquired a spring verdure that will keep him in Cambridge during the morning at least...
...political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately, Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff was not able to find the bomb for which he searched, in time. The black...
...China," he has said, "is still medieval. . . . To attempt Communism now would be like eating dessert before the soup...
Gertrude Ederle: "In Cleveland last week I rushed to the Radio Show before finishing supper. So I grabbed my dessert and ate it on the way. Said I: 'I don't care for such an exciting, rapid-fire existence. ... I never train. I eat what I please and when I please...