Word: spiced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along the line, the performances are just what Woolcott would have ordered. They've got enough spice to make them tasty, and more than enough wit to make them toothsome...
...world got along nicely through most of its history with no sugar at all. There was no sugar in Europe until the Arabs brought their "sweet salt" to Spain in 700 A.D. For centuries afterwards, sugar was regarded as a precious spice, a medicine, a rich man's luxury. Only recently has it been considered a food...
...whether or not Japan will be able to make use of the resources of the Dutch East Indies in time to improve her own industrial and military capacity. Some observers claim that she has not enough well-trained specialists to reorganize the ruined oil and rubber industries of the Spice Islands. But even if this is true, it is being extremely unrealistic to sit back and say that all we have to do is establish a blockade of the South China Sea and Japan will automatically fold up in short order. Besides the fact that we do not know...
Most of the restaurant and fountain owners in the Square are having difficulty-these days keeping all three of that deflectable trio of sugar, spice and everything nice together and available for their customers because of the current sugar shortage...
...plot is, as usual, the least important of the ingredients. Instead, the subtle wit at which William Powell and Myrna Loy have become past masters serves to spice up a thoroughly amusing film. And even their happy marriage is still as palatable to audiences as it ever...