Word: paprika
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drainage was from the Black Sea port of Odessa. There the Germans claimed they had cupped two armies. The Red Fleet, in fairly good control of the Black Sea, evacuated men by sea. "A new Dunkirk," said the Germans. "Another Tobruk," suggested the British. But Russia's jingoistic, paprika-tongued spokesman Solomon A. Lozovsky, begged to differ. "It is plain and simple Odessa,"he asserted...
...When spice-grinders tried to use wild California sage instead, it could not be sold because t smacked of turpentine. Though a sprinking of backyard sage may help out, such supplies will not be commercially important. >Thyme came from France. No U.S. horticulturist is yet growing it commercially. > Best paprika came from Hungary. A little still arrives from Portugal and Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from $18 to $45 a pound, is still almost impossible...
...seven years Clarence R. Brown, Los Angeles seed man, worked at developing a variety of paprika which would grow in profitable quantity in California's soil and climate. Last year he thought he had it, sowed 100 acres with his first crop. It came up in time to meet a market deprived of some 4,500,000 lb. of annual imports from Spain and Hungary. Spice houses gobbled up 60 tons of Seed Man Brown's dehydrated paprika powder, grossing...
Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Columbia: 4 sides). Hungarian Composer Bartok (see p. 45) wrote these paprika-pungent pieces in 1938, expressly for his good compatriot-friend Szigeti and Szigeti's good Midwestern friend Goodman...
...piquant and pungent as paprika is the music of Béla Bartók, Hungary's highest-browed composer. During the past fortnight, with the U. S. musical season well along in the salad course, many a concert program was well sprinkled with Bartók. Diffident, wispy, grey, Béla Bartók himself was visiting the U. S., for the second time in his 59 years, looking unlike the way his severe works sound...