Word: skillets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eggs for the Skillet...
...stands on every street corner in the city sold the tender delicacies like hot franks at Coney Island. Then the bird lovers of Madrid's S.P.C.A. stepped in, flooding the city with leaflets quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who liked his birds on the wing and not the skillet. The fried birds were driven off the street corners and into the taverns...
...party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where he built a fire and set the bacon frying in a skillet. While it fried, he put cornmeal, salt & pepper in the bag, and shook the cleaned fish in it. "Never put batter on a fish," said he. When a goodly amount of fat had melted from the bacon, he added an equal amount of butter to the pan and laid...
...lady in the pancake race in Olney, England ran 415 yards in "1 min. 7.2 sec." If she had gone 75 feet farther [at the same speed], she would have run the quarter mile in approximately 71½- seconds. Having in view her habiliments, sex, the skillet and other handicaps, this seems to me incredible...
Through this sprawling empire of brushes, mops and cleaners, the spirit of Stanley Beveridge, who believes that "the way to begin is to begin," gleams like a highly polished skillet. Beveridge began by selling stereopticon viewers, joined Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded...