Word: omelet
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...usual, most of those on hand had no idea what an egg roll was supposed to be. Smacks for Easter. Egg rolling is a mysterious, long-coddled folk custom that is neither a game nor a rite, not colorful or thrilling, and no more pointed than a jelly omelet. Only an oömancer could tell how it all began, or when-or why. Egg rolling is probably related to an old Central European custom called by the Germans Schmeckostern, or Easter smacks. The men beat the women with birch boughs on Easter Monday and the women beat...
...Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements...
...There was just one point to make clear: he would continue to expose Communists and crooks "even if it embarrasses my own party." And with this tight-lipped understatement, a week of throwing eggs at electric fans came to an end. The Republican Party sat down to take the omelet out of its hair and assess the damage...
...Russia because it is something "we don't really know anything about." Not all of them, of course, but the ones who fulminated--justifiably--about a lynching in Georgia, while condoning mass executions in Russia with the remark that "you've got to break some eggs to make an omelet...
...Morrison. He warned would-be purchasers that they may not own their newly acquired trucks for long, and may not get as good a price if & when a Labor government buys the trucking business for a second time. Denationalizing, under such circumstances, was plainly like trying to unscramble an omelet...