Word: pretzeled
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...being Russians and called themselves Vanya & Natasha. In a nearby basement a learned, demented printer worked feverishly on his endless history, left his work sporadically to dash out around Union Square, scattering neatly printed cards of warning and doom. In the Square every day were old Mother Volga, pretzel-seller, and Mr. Feibelman, the hot chestnutman, bitter competitors for the best place to stand; Officer Terence McGuffy, who knew all about Russia (and consequently radicals) from studying the displays in front of the Acme Cinema...
Facing President Paul von Hindenburg last week was a properly baked pretzel lour feet long, a pair of suspenders brightly stitched by a little girl, several cases of "Dear Lady's Milk"* sent by an old gentleman and some 22,000 other presents, plus 1,700 cable and radiograms received on the President's 85th birthday...
...building), may also watch the busy bakers baking. And in the art department he may see draughtsmen carefully designing new products, submitting them to cutters for mechanical approval. For while a good 50% of the company's business is in staples with large consumption (Lorna Doone Shortbreads, Slim Jim Pretzel Sticks, Holland Rusk, Butter Wafers, Snow Peaks) much of it goes into 500 varieties of biscuits and cookies which enjoy the public's favor briefly and are discontinued, replaced. Last year Nabisco withdrew 150 varieties, sent out a similar number of new ones. The problems involved are many in addition...
Cold snap and cold brains leave the Vagabond with nothing to do but place feet on the andirons and consider the pretzel divinities of yesterday: the old beery Gods of Examinations that were so glorious until Mencken and the literary smart set made sauerkraut out of them. In that mind's eye of his that has enfolded so much nebulosity, the Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through...
...made a waiter in the mess hall; the preacher was given the task of cleaning the chapel each day; the bartender was put to washing dishes; the pugilist was made a fireman in the power house; the masseur was given the job of manicuring the yard; and the pretzel peddler was assigned to the scavenger cart...