Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...
...venal and unreliable typical "chain reactionaries" which do not hesitate to suppress news contrary to their avowed policies. The third has been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant at the expense of more significant coverage...
Many a traveler has remarked the resemblance between Southern California and Lebanon-the same sunny skies (and unusual rains), golden beaches, orange groves, snowcapped mountains, religious cults, and taste for gossip with an overripe flavor...
Much of the book's flavor is due to the presence of the old people with their Frisian speech (which is close to the Anglo-Saxon), their memories and legends of old Friesland. The story is told almost season by season, chore by chore. Author Feikema excels in descriptions of plowing, cultivating, reaping, threshing. Sometimes sensitively, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes with embarrassing rhetoric he has written a unique regional novel...
Paepcke bought one of the old houses, soon returned to buy or lease most of the other buildings. He thought of rebuilding the whole town. But the more he looked at the buildings, the more their quaint, ghostly flavor got him. Result: when he hired Designer Herbert Bayer as architect, Mr. Paepcke (who is the principal backer of Chicago's arty Institute of Design) gave orders that Aspen's once-Gay Nineties atmosphere was to be preserved to the last piece of gingerbread...