Word: parsley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh Without Parsley. Hugo, having made himself the first poet of France, craved further honors. First, he aspired to (and got) the green uniform of a French Academician ("I can keep you fresh without any sprigs of parsley," complained Juliette). Next, he affronted his disciples by persuading King Louis Philippe to make him a vicomte. Three months later the new peer was caught in bed with the wife of a fresco painter, and that ditched his hope of becoming a minister. "Adultery at that time was severely dealt with," and Peer Hugo would have been prosecuted if the King...
Stripped of his social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...
...Imperial Crown Inc. put on sale gold pins and earrings made by putting trees and plant-grown leaves in a vacuum chamber and forcing 24-carat gold into the pores. The jewelry retains the shape and details of the original leaf, and the company expects to put gold broccoli, parsley, pea pods and strawberries on the market in the next two months. Price for earrings: $4 to $6; pins...
...cooked awaiting the administering hands of the experts"), traveled to Fulton, Mo. in 1946 to hear Churchill's famous Iron Curtain speech (where she interviewed a grocer who said that there were so many dinners given in honor of the event that he sold "enough parsley to decorate the gymnasium"). One New Year's Day. she appropriately headed a column "Some Morning-After Cures" (samples: twelve dashes of Angostura bitters in a glass of soda, a whisky sour, stay in bed and drink the juice from canned tomatoes, or-for a real bad hangover-an extra-dry Martini...
...Dubliner, Dr. Raymond G. Cross, offered suggestions which made some of his colleagues blink: 1) because overheating of the testicles reduces sperm production, tight-fitting underwear is bad-a kilt is just the thing; 2) a man whose sperm output is below par should eat onions, garlic, bananas, celery, parsley, honey, cheese and molasses, and drink stout; 3) before trying to bring about conception, such a husband should remain continent for ten days to six weeks...