Word: salad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience composed partly of admirers of Mr. Taylor, of modern music and of the Symphony Society, and partly of leering persons who, well knowing that the novel of James Branch Cabell is crisp with supposed "salaciousness," came in hope that the music would furnish sauce for the same salad. These last were disappointed. He has used the "Jurgen" legend merely as a pretext for the expression of certain emotions which might have been roused by the book or by some-thing else. The score is persuasive, adept, unoriginal. Critics-Mr. Taylor's colleagues, friends and rivals-were enthusiastic...
Back in the salad days of the U. S. Steel Corporation, Judge Gary unwittingly attracted much attention by inviting other steel gentlemen to take dinner with him occasionally to talk over the steel business. The Steel Corporation has often been accused, but never convicted, of being a monopoly in itself. However, when the "Gary dinners" came into the public eye, much clamor was raised by politicians that these functions violated the spirit (if not the letter) of the Sherman law. It was asserted that the masters of steel unofficially, yet none the less efficiently, regulated the whole industry over Judge...
...quoits -when they are young, like it until they are old and too gouty to stir, but women often lay their youth away in lavender before they have lived it out. And it is well for them that they do not try to keep up the pastimes of their salad days. To dance the Esmeralda in a Gibson hat, to pedal with ballooning skirts on a bicycle built for two, to play blindman's buff in midnight conservatories during dance intermissions-these are diversions that little become a shrunken or a wadded shape. Yet when a woman...
Memoirs are usually about as interesting as their authors. So much is to be expected of the Memoirs of the late and quizzical Thomas R. Marshall, erstwhile Vice President of the U. S. He wrote his memoirs, just before his death. He wanted them called A Hoosier Salad*. Last week preliminary publication of them began in the press-The New York Times...
...wrote "To make a perfect salad there should be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a madcap to stir...