Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These, essentially, are the ingredients. The have been stirred, boiled, and basted into a pretty unpalatable dish. Why does anybody ever go to pictures featuring Eddie Bracken...
Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Massachusetts' Indian-nosed Harvardman (where he was a member of Hasty Pudding and Porcellian), took a forthright stand for Indian pudding as the nation's prize dish-"sweet . . . nourishing . . . sends you away . . . with a satisfied feeling." Breaking home-grown-dish precedent, he declared candidly that his favorite recipe was not handed down in his family for generations. Said he: "We just found it in a cookbook...
...Violet is likely to draw as much critical attention as any other novel of the season. Even in a period of thriving fiction, Prater Violet would rate respect: with the Anglo-American novel at its lowest ebb in years, Prater Violet looks like a fresh, firm peach in a dish of waxed fruits...
...their letters home, the Americans would remark that in Seoul the palaces face south, the city wall is all but gone, a tycoon is a yang ban, the favorite dish is shinsunro (beef, eggs, fish, chestnuts, etc.), the housewives wash their white clothes endlessly, and countrymen still wear miniature, translucent top hats, the traditional insigne of the married man. Very friendly people, too-everybody beaming and waving, and the children tagging along behind jeeps shrieking "Hello! hello...