Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though he rhymed Goethe with teeth, a book of his poems drew rave notices, and he became the pet of London hostesses. He told the ladies that his favorite dish was pemmican, but at one party when his own verse sent him rolling on the floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night...
...other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while others, for some unknown reason, will last only a few7 hours. When he is creating a new perfume he does no sniffing, simply jots down a formula, claims he knows exactly what...
...Representative (1943-45); while vacationing in Quebec. Morrison lost the 1932 Senate Democratic primary race by some 100,000 votes to roaring Bob Reynolds, who followed him in a model T and, imitating Morrison's dignified strut, described to shocked North Carolina hillbillies Cam's favorite dish: "It's caw-vee-yah . . . It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia...
...living permanently in our Burlington, Vt. home, where my husband is able to devote much of his time to his beloved orchard, renewing daily his devotion to the United Nations in his international orchard . . . During the month of August the aroma of a deep apple pie, or a dish of warm apple sauce, made from freshly hand-picked Red Astrachans . . . is seldom out of our kitchen, adding just one more joy to life in the country-especially Vermont...
...divorce suit with gross neglect, extreme cruelty and beating her "black and blue," former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim protested that it wasn't that way at all. "Sure, we had some fights, but I always came out worse than she did. I take more than I dish...