Word: spice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly and distinctly, well aware that'many of the older members of the audience may be deaf and that the younger bloods, like as not, have just had four or five Martinis. Often when the bids hang after a quick runup, Finney interrupts the proceedings with a little spice. "Come on, gentlemen," he will say, "you're surely not going to let this fine horse go for only $7,500. Why, this filly is worth twice as much as the bid, just to breed, even if she never raced." (During the Depression Announcer Finney was equally reluctant...
Stop and think things over, and change. Take up a pipe and drop the stuffy greys and reps. For a shocker give the soft shirt a chance--pants and tie match. Keep the coat and shoes conventional, but spice them with a carnation in the buttonhole and striped laces. No more crew cuts, no more sneakers...
...This figure represents about 5,370,000 Ibs. of dried clove garlic, almost all of which was used to spice the food of residents of Puerto Rico and the East Coast of the U.S., where the garlic market has lately been booming. No Italian garlic, noted President Truman thoughtfully, was sold in Chicago in 1951, nor was much of it used in the production of garlic salt...
...streaks of light." He restored some of Homer's humor by translating a few names literally (Acroneus, Ocyalus and Elatreus became Top-ship, Quicksea and Paddler), allowed his characters to say such things as "Daddy, dear . . ." or "Old fellow . . ." All in all, Rouse added quite a bit of spice to the mounting variety of Homer translations -as readers could see for themselves by comparing...
Music and comedy acts spice the program, but Hostess Dagmar is still the whole show, and her talents are not quite up to filling the TV screen: she recites, sings (in a pleasant little voice), dances (inexpertly), and breathes deeply. She prefers to play the dumb blonde off the set as well as on, but Dagmar is shrewdly aware of fundamentals. Says she: "I used to think I had a 40-inch bust. Last week I discovered I'm a 42, and I thought we'd better tell the people about this right away...