Word: parsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first glance last week, Major General Vaughan seemed to have resigned himself to a roasting. As he entered the jammed committee room it was possible to conclude that only by oversight had he failed to put parsley over his ears and an apple in his mouth. His 240-lb. torso was encased in lashings of brass, gold braid, ribbons and other ceremonial military finery, and he eyed the investigating committee nervously, as if he expected each man to pull on a chef's hat and test him with a fork...
Maggie Porter says she didn't know paint from parsley, but she was hardly the helpless type. She had spent 13 years as food editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once clerked for three months in a grocery to bolster her research as coauthor of a housewives' handbook called To Market, To Market. As a banker's daughter and a graduate of socialite Mary Institute, she knew plenty of influential St. Louisans...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...
There is nothing wrong with this story that isn't wrong with a number of major novels-except the way a good deal of it is told, oversimplified and trimmed with parsley. Sabre's enemies and their motives are too wicked, fancy, and convenient to the plot design to remain quite believable. The obstructive wife and husband are more conveniently unlovable than an honest imitation of life would allow, and they are so tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people...
...death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable facts, well garnished with folklore and parsley...