Word: lemons
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Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, cleaning up their social obligations for the season, played host at a reception for some 1,000 Government officials and Congressmen. Milling through the East Room and the State Dining Room, the guests munched cookies, sipped lemon-and-raspberry spikeless punch, took note of the resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife...
Some of the poems here are not clear. John Ashbury's Chinatown, for instance, is filled with small startling things--"when the firebug grated a lemon"--which only jounce; taken as a whole, the poem is dreamy and shapeless...
Between them, Harl and Tulla drink about 21 cups of coffee a day: Harl, only three ("or I go through the ceiling"); Tulla, 18 ("I just love it!"). They have 20 kinds, ranging from "Angel's Bosom" (Cuban black coffee with lemon peel) to "Cafe del Diablo" (Java Semarang, blended with mint.) Harl says Boston is "just a hick town when it comes to coffee. None of the restaurant suppliers knew what an espresso machine was." Harl and Tulla also serve pastry, cheese, and sandwiches...
...delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande dame. To wonderful good nature she adds a few drops of acidity-juice from a sun-kissed lemon. Though Auntie Mame is really a one-woman show, Peggy Cass deserves mention as an unmarried expectant mother, and Polly Rowles as a stage star who has always started sleeping it off when the party has scarcely begun...
Know'st thou the land where the lemon trees bloom...