Word: spice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
...hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...
Intended as a standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...
...Recently I introduced TIME Magazine to the natives of the Soela Island Group Spice Islands, Dutch East Indies. It ran my false teeth a close second for popularity. Dozens of natives came and asked to see me take out my lower partial plate. After three days of this I sprung my copy of TIME on them instead...
TIME is glad to know that Representative Snyder is a good sport but does not regard errors as spice. The Congressman's bill does indeed specify that the highways shall not pass through cities. TIME erred in following the description of it which he himself gave in the House year ago. Typical excerpt: "The second [route] starts at Buffalo and runs through Pittsburgh, Charleston, W. Va., Atlanta, Ga., to Pensacola...