Word: piccalilli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Step right up, folks," the barkers were calling. "Hurree, hurree, hurree!" The Ferris wheel was turning, the roller coaster swooped down its artificial abysses, and the piccalilli was waiting to be judged. But the most up-to-date attraction at the Illinois State Fair last week was a good-looking, dark-haired young man with a manner both aggressive and modest, and a personality to delight any political barker. He seemed to have everything-a fine TV manner, an attractive family, a good war record, deep sincerity and religious faith, a Horatio Alger-like career, which had led him into...
City Opera played it for guffaws-and got them. Some of the critics hinted that the whole thing was piccalilli. But, as charmingly sung by a first-rate cast, it was first-class piccalilli...