Word: salad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corn Products Refining Co. ("Argo" and "Duryea" starch, "Karo" corn syrup, "Mazola" salad & cooking oil)-$11,905,289. Previous year...
...Please tell Mr. Copper," a grizzled old man sat at dinner aboard train, "that the meat was excellent, the salad marvelous, and the pastry better than ever." The waiter came back. "Mr. Copper's compliments, and he reminds you, sir, that the soup was good...
...person who invariably orders chicken salad, who is smazed when his best friend answers the steward in French, and who is alone in a crowd will find all his problems solved for the year 1928 in this Almanack...
Probably because the Vagabond has never been there. Peru has always appealed to him as a country of romance, one of those places toward which there is the feeling. "Some day I shall go there." Perhaps the root of this feeling could be traced to the Vagabond's salad days when, in company with the vast majority of his contemporaries, he was an ardent if largely unsuccessful collector of foreign postage stamps, and spent pleasant hours gazing at brightly colored. Peruvian llamas perched precariously upon impossible rocky peaks...
...Tribune, in Chicago, where Mrs. Stillman was once the debutante "Fifi" Potter, and whither she seldom returns, put all the animus of constitutional vulgarity into its headline: "FIFl HURLS CUPS AND SALAD AT NEWSPAPER MEN." The Tribune account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride...