Word: lox
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...poor head, so she cried: "The sky is falling down!" She told Hen-len who told Cock-lock, who told Duck-luck, who told Drake-lake, who told Goose-loose, who told Gander-lander, who told Turkey-lurkey. And on their way to tell the King, they met Fox-lox, who offered to take them to the Palace. Instead, he ate them all up. Moral: Use Your Head, Else a Fox May Pluck Your Feathers...
...dresses), moved to an uptown shop above a delicatessen and a Chinese restaurant. Their only advertising was Hattie herself, but it was enough. Soon Soprano Alma Gluck, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. and other fashionable ladies were standing patiently for fittings in the mingled aroma of chop suey and lox. In 1919, after a quarrel, Hattie bought out her partner, and later moved to the present, world-famed Carnegie salon on Manhattan's East 49th Street. The same year, she made her first trip to Paris (through the years she rolled up a total of nearly 100 trips abroad...
...unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They speak a novel language, using words like "parameter," "lox," "apogee" and "servo." They join in the life of the local community, but remain people apart, given to sudden silences...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
...year, Merriam ran this year as a Republican, and ran hard. He put on a daily five-minute TV show, raced around in a Chevrolet equipped with radio-telephone for campaign calls and an electric razor for touch-up shaves. At endless campaign gatherings he breakfasted on bagels and lox, dined on corned beef and cabbage, sipped coffee late into the night. Once he walked into a South Side revival meeting just as a writhing, frenzied woman was carried out. "Say what you got to say," the minister told him. "Do it in five minutes and git on outa here...