Word: souped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what I mean by "leftovers?" It's like having spinach on Monday, spinach salad on Tuesday, and spinach soup on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We're sick of spinach...
...made of a secret formula, looked like lacquer. Since it bore no real resemblance to a keg, American limited itself to a careful claim that "people say" canned beer tastes better than bottled. It also dusted off the notion that light hurts bottled beer. Keg-lined Cans look like soup cans, have a special can-opener...
...arriviste whose ebullient social career is based upon his chain of 50 blue-&-gold Palace Laundries, each plastered with the slogan "Long Live Linen." Laundryman Marshall sleeps until noon every day, takes a nap before dinner, stays up most of the night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall's behavior do not argue lack of acumen. Onetime partner in a small-time vaudeville act with Cinema Director Monta Bell, he built up his string of laundries, conveniently...
...executes so many of her specialties that for her confirmed admirers the picture should be the most effective of the rapid series of four she has made since becoming a star last winter. In the course of her impersonation Shirley Temple sings two songs (Animal Crackers in My Soup, When I Grow Up), impersonates Whistler's mother, rides piggyback, does a solo tap-dance on a piano top, learns how to use a finger bowl. Her bridge work, replacing a baby tooth lost last spring, is unnoticeable...
Nonplussed Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...