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...sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...
Bubbling like a vat of mash, Boland retorted: "I cannot let that pass. We produce as good woolens as any-every bit as good as those of Scotland ... I do not drink whisky and I am not a judge of it, but I am told that Irish whisky is as good as any in the world-every bit as good as Scotch...
...Washington last week; if they would look in a spot in the Maryland woods thirty miles from the capital, they would find a big still. Three agents hustled to the spot. When they got close, they sniffed the telltale reek of fermenting *Background: portrait of Founder A. P. Giannini. mash. Led by their noses, they found a nice big still and vats that could hold 7,000 gallons of mash, enough to produce 240 gallons of high-proof moonshine a day. As the agents dynamited the still, one said: "I've never seen one this big before, even...
...only the great writers who trademark their work. Lesser authors, too, car. take the language in their bare hands and mash it into a pulp which is peculiarly their own. Thus, although many of Shakespeare's best lines might have been written by one or another of his contemporaries, no living writer can quite reproduce the "feel" of a characteristic line by Kathleen Winsor: "They stood together, his legs widespread"; "He swept the hair off her neck and put his mouth there"; "He smelt like weeds rotted in water." Even longer stretches of Winsor prose have that touch...
...been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...