Word: salade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...femme fatale until the suicide of her second husband, Paul Bern, made this designation seem shockingly impolite. Since then, fan magazines have shifted their viewpoint and painted "the real Jean Harlow" as a cross between a camp cook and an English sheepdog, notable mainly for her skill in making salad dressings and the difficulty she experiences with shampoos. All this is obviously rubbish, the more inexcusable since it is clearly contradicted by the facts of her career...
...finished steel mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind. which, though it looked like a bad investment in 1931 and 1932, is currently responsible for most of Inland's profits. Leopold Block is the financial head and used to be the top salesman. In the company's salad days he was not above going down to the railroad station to greet incoming purchasing agents as they stepped off the train. But Salesman Block never used high-pressure methods. Amiable, gentle, softspoken, he resembles the oldtime drummer only in that he continually smokes a long black cigar...
...this sad band of involuntary evildoers, Mrs. Fulmer App of Muncy, Pa. last March prepared and served pudding and salad to 70 guests at an old woman's birthday party. Three guests died of typhoid fever, a dozen others were laid low, and last week Mrs. App, who knew what a menace she was and had been told to stay away from kitchens, was fined...
...rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable...
...Anna Schlorer helped her mother mix, bottle and label mayonnaise in the family kitchen, peddled it from door to door until midnight or later. After six years her mother formed a company and soon the mayonnaise, pickles, relishes, potato salad and other delicacies of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were famed throughout Philadelphia & vicinity...