Word: pistachios
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...Moore is even funnier than he was in Of Thee I Sing. Dictator Wintergreen promises everybody cake when he gets to the Blue House. His successor promises caviar. When the counterrevolution takes place, Funnyman Moore saves himself from being guillotined and becomes President of the U. S. He promises pistachio ice cream...
...South America for the wild strange blooms from which he has grown rare progeny ever since-huge single flowers for debutantes, dowagers and prima donnas; smaller ones for fancy gentlemen; orchids in long sprays, in tiny spidery spikes, some resembling pansies or dogwood blossoms, some like sweet peas, like pistachio candy. Most of John Lager's finest plants were at home last week. Too valuable to be entered in shows are the really rare orchids which orchid men guard like crown jewels...
...Manhattan, one Henry Wein, punched by the husband of a woman next whom he sat in a theatre, explained that he was only reaching in his pocket for pistachio nuts...
...Mesopotamia. Some bread, wheat, barley, peas and pistachio nuts were dumped into the bins of a great temple at Kirkuk, Iraq, some 3.500 years ago. They were still there, although carbonized, when diggers recently uncovered the building. Nearby was the home of a rich family. Clay records tell of their marriages and adoptions, their business in slaves, securities, and goods, their loans, deposits and lawsuits...
...scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around the sophisticated maypole of their own futility. Pickled peacock stuffed with pistachio-nuts-champagne and liquid cream-cheese-a witty, mordant extravaganza of modern fools and fribbles and farceurs and fakers, at times moving, at times a little rancid, always pyrotechnic-an English Blind Bow-Boy with infinitely more brilliance, grace and bite...