Word: rancidly
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...passport holders living within the militia-guarded walls of the spacious, 40-roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before...
Today peace strikes and student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...
...Samuel Hoare who was just about to leave England to "get peace" in France (see p. 20). Since it is from Benito Mussolini that peace has to be got, Sir Samuel buttered the Dictator and Italy in a manner which struck anti-Fascist Labor M.P.'s as rancid. "We have no wish to humiliate Italy nor to weaken Italy," cried Britain's Secretary. "Indeed, we are most anxious to see a strong Italy in the world. ... I appeal once more to Signor Mussolini and his fellow countrymen. . . . Let them dismiss from their minds the suspicion that we wish...
Ebalgume! Cut them down! Cut them down!" The breeze shifted, carrying the echo louder to the reviewing stand, and bringing with it a great stench of sweat, steaming horseflesh, and rancid butter with which Ethiopian warriors pomade their locks. Thus Crown Prince Asfa Wassan last week reviewed the troops whose commander he had just been made, troops almost certain to be the first to oppose the Italian advance next month, and to try to repeat the great victory of Adowa 39 years ago when the cry of "Ebalgume! Ebalgume!" chilled the heart of Italy...
...Rancidity Preventive. Now that they have learned how to prevent it, chemists revealed that bacon, potato chips, cakes, candy and similar foods become rancid if wrapped in ordinary transparent cellulose sheets. Cause: ultraviolet light which reaches the food through the transparent wrapper. Cure: tinting cellulose wrapping paper with a faint yellow dye which obstructs ultraviolet light...