Word: nutmegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffer an allergy as well as a hangover. Not counting the olive in a Martini, Dr. Swartz lists some of the possible ingredients of gin that may cause an allergy: aniseed, caraway, cardamon, fennel or coriander seed, cinnamon, cloves, calamus root, licorice, orris root, sloeberries, juniper berries, nutmeg, orange or lemon peel...
Connecticut troopers, who pride themselves on their scientific methods of crime detection, had set a futuristic ambush for the criminally hasty. Using camouflaged radar, the Nutmeg finest can now detect a 45-plus speed even in the softest purring Cadillac...
They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...
Margery Sharp has a sharp eye. But it takes more than that to be a really good writer. In her slight, pleasant novels (The Nutmeg Tree, Cluny Brown) she has neatly observed the small, telling details of social manners that weightier novelists often pass by. Her special gift is sketching, snippily but without too much malice, the idiosyncratic types that seem still to populate the English countryside as in the days of Jane Austen. (This gift has paid off well; three of her novels have been chosen as monthly selections by the Book-of-the-Month Club...
Punch before lunch before lunch, thought Vag, how delightful. Luncheon, luncheon, puncheon before-I'll go, he decided. It wouldn't be right to cut his own roommate, even though that nutmeg floating...I can't, Vag said suddenly aloud, I can't drink that awful, awful awful any more. He braced himself for the shower, braced two or three times experimentally, then slumped into the chair and on with the radio. "And now our Morning Pops program, brought to you by Almeda Fiddle, presents Arthur Fiedler and the Bawwstun Pawwps in De Riccerio's "Dance of the..." Bang went...