Word: souped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that was some living; creeping through the back alleys at night, yogi parties, the red lights of the east end, the drowning sounds of Powell Street in the afternoon, and in the early evening as the sun set on the bay the soft odors of won-ton soup drifting up through the air vents. Crazy! But take my advice, and give up the Oriental bit, and go domestic. Contemplation, inward communion, and all that jazz is all right, but all I got was anemic from eating too much rice...
...rescuers dug toward the entombed men, both sides shouting happy obscenities. A burr-tongued Scotsman yelled through the pipe, got the reply: "Take the marbles out of your mouth and talk English." The rescue team shoved a copper tube through the steel pipe, poured in water, hot coffee, then soup, while a mine doctor shouted instructions to take one swallow, count 500, take another...
...word went round last week: "He will be a great Pope!" In Sotto il Monte the three remaining Roncalli brothers. Zaverio, 75, Alfredo, 69, and Giuseppe, 64, were having supper after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni, a little town near Milan, Angelo Roncalli's sister Assunta was out buying bread when the news reached her. "My God, little...
Children & Pets. Norman stoutly affirms that one great man was a hero to his valet, but wryly suggests that he had to be a bit of a hero himself. From bath to bedtime (often a cup of "real" turtle soup at 2 or 3 a.m. ) he had to look after the greatest package of will power and energy in the Western world. Also, he had to clean paint brushes and look after the remarkable Churchill wardrobe. In the uniform department, it was one of the most splendid seen in Europe since the fall of the Bastille. For the rest. Churchill...
...Campbell Soup Co. stockholders also got good news. In the company year just ended, Campbell for the first time pushed sales over the half-billion mark, earned a record $31,530,460 v. $29,949,148 the year before, Minneapolis-Honeywell (regulators) had the best third-quarter in its history in both sales and earnings. It earned $5,847,624 v. $4,143,615 for the July-September period of 1957. Even where business has been worst, in the railroads, there was good news. Pennsylvania Railroad, operating in the red for most of this year, reported that in September...