Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity stunt to lure tourists, Alberta's Social Credit government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
...TIME'S alleged "critic" does envy Author Caldwell's ability to dish...
Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Stravinsky, whose real dish is ballet, again demonstrates both his rhythmic fecundity and his thematic sterility. Performance: excellent...
...Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London's bohemia. But Prelude...
Animal Lover. In Kroonstad, South Africa, a native who was fined five shillings for stealing a cat explained to the court that he was crazy about tabbies: they were his favorite dish...