Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Departure & Arrival. The hour of Wyszynski's departure for Rome had not been announced, but word spread quickly through the city, and by the time he arrived at the railroad station a large crowd packed the platform, weeping and cheering. Women brought flowers, jars of soup and freshly baked cakes for the journey. "May you live 100 years," they chanted, and when the train finally pulled out people still strained to kiss the cardinal's ring as he leaned from the window...
...throne as the first Ming Emperor in 1368 rapidly produced an epicurean age of elegance, not unlike that which marked the courts of Europe in the 18th century. The great pottery works of the Sung emperors were revived and expanded. For Emperor Hsuan-te's Dragon Soup Bowl, craftsmen ground rubies to powder to achieve richness of color; court ladies dipped their fingers into exquisite candy dishes for the cardamoms and nutmegs that served as breath sweeteners. Jade was in such demand that by the time of the Manchus there were thousands of workmen carving and polishing objects, many...
...Buster Keaton Story (Paramount). The policeman circled the object suspiciously. Its face looked like something that had crawled up through the collar and died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...
THERE was a Renaissance count named Frederick of Montefeltro who was blind in one eye. This made him nervous, since he was unable to see what was happening on his blind side-his Borgia-minded dinner guests, for instance, might easily drop some poison in his soup. So he had a surgeon cut a notch in his nose for good peripheral vision. This incident is used by Sir Harold Delf Gillies, Britain's famed and famously light-hearted plastic surgeon, to illustrate the infinite challenges to the imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive...
...West Coast Teamsters paid $94,000 for stock, e.g., in the Campbell Soup Co., for such deserving union officials as Frank Brewster and John Sweeney. Asked Kennedy: "Did the members of the union know that their money had been used to purchase the Campbell Soup stock for the various officials?" Replied Brewster: "I don't think we sent out a bulletin to that effect...