Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sons-in-law are incessantly reported vexed about their mothers-in-law. But rarely are they reported trying to poison them. Even in Abyssinia, small country in the northeast of Africa, where it is easy to poison people because they take so much red pepper at dinner that they can taste nothing else, sons-in-law have rarely been reported trying to poison their mothers-in-law. But last fortnight, an Abyssinian actually was accused of wanting to poison his Abyssinian mother-in-law. Further, he was accused of having succeeded...
Traditionally inseparable are salt and pepper.* All laymen recognize their union, their happy partnership. Few laymen realize their fundamental differences. Salt is a mineral; pepper a vegetable. Salt is a domestic product; all black pepper is imported...
Last week, specialists in the salt and pepper markets noted a more acute, immediate difference. The price of salt goes steadily down. (TIME, Sept. 17.) But the price of pepper is soaring, rocketlike, to record heights...
...Pepper, a seed, is picked from a 40-foot vine, growing up the trunk of a tree, or around a low hut. There are two seasons, two sources. From Telok Belong in Dutch East India are harvested each July between 10.000 and 24,000 tons of pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop...
...crop of Lampong was far below normal. This year's crop, not yet delivered, is only about 15,000 tons. Spice traders (pepper is the most important of their 108 spices), trading in spot pepper and futures, are short when the time of delivery arrives. They must get pepper at any price to fulfill contracts. They must draw from the surplus Alleppy and Tellicherry in India and in England, and pay dearly. Prices rise. From a normal price of 12?-a pound, pepper quotations have risen to 43?. Brokers prophesied last week that a high of 40? would...