Word: peaching
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...book form, Prater Violet is likely to draw as much critical attention as any other novel of the season. Even in a period of thriving fiction, Prater Violet would rate respect: with the Anglo-American novel at its lowest ebb in years, Prater Violet looks like a fresh, firm peach in a dish of waxed fruits...
...yacht once known as the Aras and owned by Maine Paper Manufacturer Hugh J. Chisholm. President Truman will have two double staterooms on the boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg...
...slight figure, wide grin and puckish face-unlike Willie's, his beard was no heavier than peach fuzz-was better known to the Fifth Army than General Mark Clark...
...this afternoon he was going to a barbecue. He had told his friend Jess Long, Georgia peach grower, to "make some of that good Brunswick stew of yours." In the evening, the polio patients at his beloved Warm Springs Foundation were going to give a minstrel show for him. He was looking forward to both affairs...
Once during that period, the Food Minister murmured: "We haven't done too badly by Gladstone-we've named a useful piece of luggage for him. Nellie Melba gets her eternity in a pleasant peach concoction." Then he added: "But me-they will remember me, if at all, for a pie made of the humblest vegetables...