Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field's recipe: "I cut the chicken up in usual pieces and stew it slowly in water until it's tender. I season it well with salt, pepper and a little paprika. I add one onion, one potato, one turnip, one pound of cabbage, one half pound of carrots and two ounces of rice. Then I cook it for another hour or so, adding 1 more or less water. Generally I pick the chicken off the bones and break it up before adding the vegetables, so it will be mixed all through...
...President Arthur Villiers Morton of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania; Director Edward Ray Weidlein of Mellon Institute of Industrial Research: one-time Senator George Wharton Pepper from Washington. They, with Mr. Donner. manage the new foundation...
When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...glory in figures. To raise money he has resorted to dramatic speeches and to committees (such as the Women's, chairmanned by Mrs. Herbert Hoover, which is giving the North Porch ?TIME, May 25). There are many notable campaigners like General John Joseph Pershing and ex-Senator Pepper. But it is Bishop Freeman, chiefly, who gets the gifts. Biggest givers include: the late Rug Manufacturer Alexander Smith Cochran of Yonkers ($1,510,000 for the College of Preachers) ; the late Banker George Fisher Baker ($750,000 for the completion of the North Transept); the late Realtor & Mrs. Archibald...
...President Kent there is a great deal of the actor, also a genuineness sprung from the days when he was an engineer in Wyoming. Usually wearing a pepper & salt suit, he is full of tricks and stories. Salesmen under him marvel at his eloquence, his exciting vocabulary. Fox's bankers planned to watch him for several months before making him president but his air and accomplishments won them over in one-third of that time...