Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Name: Dmitry Trofimovich Shepilov (pronounced Sheh-peel...
...Elderly club servants in somewhat moth-eaten vestments...were shuffling about with trays of ritual cocktails being served to what President Eliot once called--and his successors still call--'the society of educated men'. Even the olives and cherries, the orange peel, and toothpicks in the glasses seemed to have taken on moral dignities and a sense of mission which they can never hope to attain in the outer illiterate world where they are at the best the unashamed symbols of candid self-indulgence...
...rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated rage was uncontainable, and the rehearsal had to be canceled...
...proclaims that America has no problems-and then goes on to propose Democratic solutions for them. Why is this? Well, 1956 is an election year, and from intimate personal experience and from my reading of Republican history I am reminded again of what Disraeli said of his opposition, Robert Peel: 'The right honorable gentleman uses two languages: one during his hour of courtship, another for his years of possession...
Nothing enrages the sophisticate more than olives, onions or other hors d'oeuvres in a martini. But a twist of lemon peel is usually acceptable. In faraway Wisconsin, the latest cult insists on an anchovy-stuffed olive...