Word: larding
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...brandy in"). Some of his recipes read like calisthenic exercises: "Now add the vanilla and beat! beat! beat! If you think you are too beat to beat any more, you are a quitter!" Others encourage the housewife to pick quarrels with the quartermaster: "Ask butcher to lard beef with 1-in. strips of salt pork. If he won't take the trouble, curse him roundly, leave, and find a butcher fellow who will...
...prefer their theater a little meatier than Broadway leftovers reheated for the summer circuit, there is always Shakespeare. Across the land, Shakespeare festivals are proliferating in colleges, in parks, in barns, in permanent installations that sometimes even look like Elizabethan theaters. A few have found it expedient to lard their offerings of the bard with other classics from Shaw to Gilbert and Sullivan. On the menu: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Ore.: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ro meo and Juliet, Love's Labour's Lost, Henry V. Season ends Sept...
...muscle fuel. So farmers encouraged their hogs to get as obese as circus fat ladies. But times have changed. Most modern Americans make little muscular effort, and hog fat is high on the list of dietary enemies. Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly...
...oily-headed locker-room amateur beside him: "Say, you still using that greasy kid stuff?"). Greasy Kid Stuff was invented last summer as a gag. Its college-boy creators. Bill Cole and Larry Frohman, each invested $50, mixed up a batch of mineral oil and lanolin in a lard can, threw in a pinch of spice perfume, churned the whole with an egg beater, and turned out 120 bottles of Stuff. Their advertising was built in: the $10 million Bristol-Meyers campaign for Vitalis worked wonders for that Greasy Kid Stuff too. And since greasy kids like their greasy hair...
...doorstops consider the color scheme of the room which contains the door to be stopped. Samples: SHAKESPEARE: TEN GREAT PLAYS (502 pp.; Golden Press; $12.95) has a pinkish grey dust jacket, suitable for pinkish grey rooms. Why, however, print only ten of Shakespeare's plays? And why lard them out with puerile illustrations? The answer, possibly, is so that the publisher can charge $12.95 for literature in the public domain...