Word: joying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dazzled her friends that they urged her to publish it privately. The experienced cooks received it with respect, and the beginners, to whom "basting" was something done with a needle and thread, were pathetically grateful. Bobbs-Merrill, equally impressed, brought it out publicly four years later. Since then, The Joy of Cooking has sold more than 6,000,000 copies to become the second largest-selling cookbook in the world* and as familiar a staple in the American kitchen as salt...
Author Rombauer, widowed since her husband's death in 1930, became a celebrity of sorts. Fan mail, at the rate of 2,000 letters a day, streamed into her St. Louis home; the Cordon Bleu and London's Flower School brought out an English edition of The Joy of Cooking; the story goes that an eloping bride sent her family a cable-AM MARRIED. ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS. SEND ME ROMBAUER COOKBOOK AT ONCE...
...Europe. "To try to unify Europe is to try to break through frontiers which are too narrow for today. To unify Europe is not to fall back on an autarchic concept; it is a step toward universality . . . Welcome us without fear; welcome us, on the contrary, with confidence and joy, for it is to all, without exception, that we extend our friendly hand...
Miss Leighton, it must be candidly admitted, is a joy to watch at any time, and she almost saves the show just by being in it. Progressively downer and outer, she is ever, as she tells us at the end of Act I when she exits, stoned, with her dress covering little of her back, "every inch a lady...
...years. For the frail, cane-carrying composer, whose symphonic ballets were branded "corrupt and bourgeois" during Stalin's day, it was an emotional homecoming. "I left Czarist Russia and have returned to the Soviet Union, which I greet," said Stravinsky in Russian. "It is a great joy." After a tender meeting with a niece he had known only through an exchange of letters, Stravinsky was helped into a limousine and whisked in a motorcade to his hotel, where, fortified with vodka and caviar, he worked over the scores for three concerts with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, which will play...