Word: podrida
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...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
...Doric columns of the New York Times, in the tabloid New York Daily News and in many another U. S. daily, during the last fortnight of the campaign, was spread an eye-arresting advertisement. Half of it was an olla-podrida of press clippings, some of them from The Fellowship Forum. Specimens...
...article lost by one man in the morning may be appropriated by another in the afternoon. This unnecessary disappearance of property might be remedied, we think, if a list of the articles lost were posted on the gymnasium bulletin and the articles themselves were not consigned to the "olla podrida" of shoes, slippers, jerseys, etc., for some definite period, say a week or ten days...