Word: souped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he hits the jackpot. As his front lawn is piled high with cartons of soup, dressed beef, a grand piano, fruit trees and ponies, as a feline portrait painter (Patricia Medina) and a lacy interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) move in on him, Stewart plunges into a glassy-eyed nightmare that costs him his job, threatens his marriage, gets him clapped into jail...
This lending of the Roosevelt name to the hawking of noodle soup and hearing aids has already inspired a broad parody from New York World Telegram & Sun Columnist H. I. Phillips, as well as the expected blasts from Westbrook Pegler. Elliott is saddened by such comments, but not surprised. "You always get carping criticism, people saying it's nothing but a money-making proposition," he explains. "But mother has a real feeling of achievement now that she has twelve sponsors. Sponsors are a sign of success...
...beaten. The prisoners were then put on a train headed north from Pyongyang. The train traveled only at night and there were many delays while the Reds repaired the tracks. Said Mistretta: "They let us scrounge in the fields for dry corn and old beans. We made some soup out of snails.Some of the men caught cats and ate them. I chased a cat for 15 minutes but couldn't catch...
...black-tie crush of an affair. The City of New York, a lavish host, had rented the main ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria for the occasion. Over turtle soup and filet mignon, and through a few innocuous speeches, everyone would ignore the war in Korea for the moment, be friendly and smiling for each other and the photographers. Hence the whole thing, like past U.N. banquets, would be unreal, in a pleasant sort of way, and also somewhat dull...
...aimless would be guided into hotels, other havens marked with red, white & blue signs: "This is the emergency welfare center for this area." Evacuees would be routed into tunnels that were still open, over bridges that were still intact-carried to nearby communities by trains, buses, taxis, autos. Soup kitchens would be set up. Registration points would be established to record the names of the homeless...