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Grease & Gravy. When he later became "Pear Bottom" and "Jelly Belly," he concluded that he must, in self-defense, "begin eating smaller meals and doing calisthenics in my bedroom." When he failed to watch his own grooming, he was quickly pulled up short: "Once I incautiously pointed out a grease spot on a boy's shirt. He thereupon called attention to an extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace...
Professor Ernest A. Rudge of West Ham Municipal College was on a picnic with his wife near Holyfield, twelve miles northeast of London, when he first noticed the odd, pear-shaped stone. Made of pebbles embedded in sandstone (conglomerate), it looked like a pudding full of raisins. To Archeologist Rudge the stone seemed out of place in that area; there is no native conglomerate within five miles...
...Heat rinsed over face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees and feet. She lay with shut eyes, the sun flaming through her lids. She reached out for leaves to put over her eyes. The sun filled her body like a ripening pear...
...pint of cider, 4) a triple chef's salad, 5)3 four-egg cheese omelette, 6) a double order of French fries, 7) four pieces of toast, 8) a double portion of strawberry shortcake, 9) one slice of chocolate layer cake, 10) one piece of cheesecake, 11) one pear tart, 12) one cheese sandwich, 13) one egg salad sandwich, 14) two portions of mocha nut cake, 15) a dessert of cottage cheese and peaches covered with sour cream, then refused cream & sugar with her coffee because "they're fattening...
...Tomatoes. At the age of 15, Tillie, who was born Myrtle Ehrlich, was married to a Brooklyn wholesale grocer who imported the firm-bodied, pear-shaped Italian tomatoes which make the best spaghetti sauce. She later divorced the grocer, but she remembered the tomatoes, even when she went to work selling securities in Wall Street. In 1934, when a tariff sent the price of Italian tomatoes skyrocketing, Tillie began to think of growing them in the U.S. Everybody told her it was impossible ("the soil isn't right"). But on a trip to Italy, she got seed and talked...