Word: paprika
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hedge against inflation, main pepper purchasers are the grinders, who maintain "spice mills" all over the U. S. Packers and canners take the balance of the 18,000 tons used annually by the U. S. Not to be confused with black or white pepper is red pepper, cayenne or paprika, which comes from a different plant, has small volume, little speculative value, is not traded on pepper exchanges...
...call this feature 'Sunday Salad,' " he told the brown-eyed young gentlewoman from Tennessee. "Make its base of fresh, crisp ideas. Over them pour a dressing mixed of oil of kindness, the vinegar of satire, the salt of wit, and a dash of the paprika of doing things." They also decided they would henceforth call Mrs. Gilmer, "Dorothy...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
...personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion for realism a free rein. Nobody has intervened.'' Many a reader will be grinningly grateful...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...