Word: parsley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diet, women in search of beauty can always get needed vitamins from cabbage, carrots, parsley, apples...
...charter was three important city jobs for his friends. Rather than pay that price, Chartermen would apparently dicker with the Republicans. Meantime, Councilman Bigelow blithely observed: "Perhaps we may never get a Mayor. What's the difference? A Mayor is only a ceremonial figure, a sort of political parsley to adorn ceremonial dinners. Why shouldn't the Councilmen take turns at this sort of punishment, eating meals without money and making speeches without meaning...
...spring's crop of horror pictures. Werewolves are not as eerie as vampires but they are faster, more ferocious and make uglier noises. A sprig of bat-thorn, as seasoned cinemaddicts are well aware, will keep a vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight in a valley in Tibet. Taken in small doses, the juice of the mariphasa will arrest lycanthropy temporarily. The Werewolf of London is a nasty little fantasy showing what...
...about 11.15 in all manner of weird conveyances and arrived at the Varsity club at a little after 11.15 where a tasty lunch was spread, for them, prepared as only Mr. Waistcoat can. Delicious hot steaks were set appetizingly out in long platters, garnished with quaint sprigs of parsley. On the attractively decorated table were set large bowls of Raspberry jam, out of which peeped wide eyed little seeds. The steaming hot toast out of the big Union ovens came in and was eagerly devoured by the hungry horde of football fighters...
...what is called his shyness. . . . He avoids eating with other people. ... He hates waiting more than two minutes for a meal or spending more than five minutes on a meal." He eats anything from diseased camel meat up. Says he, "To me, all food is alike except oysters and parsley. I don't like oysters. I'm not fond of parsley?tastes like a grave." He "avoids regular hours of sleep. . . . Perhaps his most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks at a man's face and never recognizes a face. ... He can be relentless to the point...