Word: peppering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic for us -our little pepper-upper...
Three days later, Florida's New Dealing Senator Claude Pepper shocked spectators and his colleagues with an irresponsible, low-blow attack on the National Association of Manufacturers' ex-Chairman Ira Mosher. Pounding the desk, Pepper roared: "It was the poor people whose sons went to the battlefields, and a lot of the manufacturers' sons who stayed home and got rich." Said Witness Mosher quietly: "Three of my family died in the war." *Replied Pepper feebly: "Then you are an exception...
Whether Dever can beat out Bradford is quite doubtful, but he cannot go far wrong. In the eyes of Massachusetts housewives he will take his place beside Pepper Young, Just Plain Bill, and Papa Goldberg as one of radio's daytime dream...
...intermissions are the only good things about this show." "Obviously," said Goldsmith, "that meant that Mission Oil was the only good buy." He so advised his customers, and two days later Mission Oil hit a new high. (Goldsmith also discovered tips in the Wall Street Journal's "Pepper and Salt" joke column...
Chuck roast is our weekend standby. We brown it slowly in an old-fashioned iron Dutch oven or heavy aluminum roaster. Bacon drippings, onions, celery tops, bay leaves, parsley, salt & pepper add flavor. When the meat is browned on both sides I add a little water, cover tightly, and let it barely simmer on top of the stove for about three hours, occasionally adding a little more water. Potatoes, carrots and celery are steamed on top of the roast during the last hour and a half . . . Roast and vegetables [make] a Sunday dinner for at least four people...