Word: omeletic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand old man had given the party fresh spirit. But had he satisfied the party's "Young Turks"? If, indeed, the party did regain power, what was to be done about the nationalization already in effect? Said one young delegate: "We can't very well unscramble that omelet...
Betty (The Egg and I) MacDonald, whose airy literary omelet is the nation's favorite dish, got a deep bow from her adopted state of Washington. The governor, the mayor and the president of the state Farmers' Association were among the benders-from-the-waist at eating and oratorical festivities in Seattle. Authoress MacDonald watched what she ate; after five years of staggering headaches she had discovered the trouble: she was allergic to eggs...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...weeks the New York Herald Tribune sport page has dished up a weekly news omelet for G.I. Joe. Jampacked into a double column box, to be clipped and mailed overseas, were sport highlights, reported in a motley cablese. G.I.s liked it.'Last week Sports Editor Stanley ("Old Coach") Woodward wrote his farewell Weekly Overseas Sports Letter, thus summarized football's finals...
...Electric Omelet. In Manhattan, Ashley Jackson started home with half a case of eggs, had a few drinks, saw an electric fan, couldn't resist, got 20 days...