Word: maraschinos
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...pillows (45 in all) and gazing at a projection screen showing a Roman garden, the guests are served by waitresses dressed in silky purple pantaloons and boleros. In addition to buffalo steak, Sasha's offers such items as suckling pig (dressed with lemon in mouth, maraschino cherries in eyes), lamb, baby goat, pheasant and partridge. Price of a meal: $6.50 up. Among the regular Romans, some of whom like to wear togas for the occasion: Robert Cummings, Ray Milland. Lucy and Desi Arnaz. Explains Sculptor-Restaurateur Atanas Katcha-makoff: "The Roman Room gives people a chance to be aristocrats...
National out of some unproductive old lines. One such was the White Rock Corp., another was Italian Swiss Colony Wine Co. (TIME, April 27); a third was Henry H. Shufeldt & Co., which processed glace fruits as well as maraschino cherries and olives for dunking in National's liquor. Bierwirth sold them and all the rest, realizing $3,000,000 over their book value...
Three weeks later students at the Louisiana Girls' College struck back, gave 23 faculty members an intelligence test. Among the teachers' answers: they defined sequins as fish, named Al Jolson as a wrestling champion, Maraschino a Premier of Russia and Filet Mignon an opera by Puccini...
Some Operations have been more subtle. Life Magazine put the maraschino on its latest Americanism sundae with a two-page picture spread of "fellow-travelers and dupes" who backed the Cultural and Scientific Conference in New York. The rogues' gallery left little space for a small-print admission that not all of these people were really dangerous, that some were merely being "duped," and that much of the "evidence" against others was hearsay. A magazine with Life's circulation can bring a lot more pressure merely by visual impression and numbers than a paper like the Herald...
...tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion, surcingle, maraschino...