Word: nougat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...
...Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets of strawberries, nougat (for roads), sugar and tartar (for snow...
Here you will see a Pekinese pagoda made of fresh and crackly peanut brittle -there a snow-white marshmallow igloo -there a toothsome pink nougat in the Florentine manner, rich and delicious with embedded nuts. Yonder rears a clean pocket-size replica of heraldic Warwick Castle-yonder drowses a nausey old nance. . . . And there a hot little hacienda, a regular enchilada conqueso with a roof made of rich red tomato sauce, barely lifts her long-lashed lavender shades on the soul of old Spanish days...