Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned body in the U. S. Philosophy was once synonymous with science, and the society's usual convention agenda are almost wholly scientific, with frequent speculative spice and many a dash of human interest. Noteworthy discussions at last week's meeting...
...impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal tissue-wool, silk, feathers, even leather and deer antlers. They will not, however, eat wool if it is completely sterile. Presumably impurities in the air and traces of perspiration provide spice enough under ordinary conditions...
...course the music is the spice, or rather, the sweetening of the evening. Waltz compositions of both the Strausses are played and sung at well-spaced intervals but occasionally they become syrupy. The musical comedy starts with the Radetsky March and ends with the climactic The Beautiful Blue Danube, played by the younger Strauss to an enraptured audience at the fashionable Dommayer beer garden. As the orchestra plays and the audience dances, the happy singing announces that Vienna has acclaimed a new waltz king, worthy successor of his own father...
...every major address is represented by an excerpt and the scraps are in general judiciously chosen. The flavor of each man's remarks is fairly well indicated. The diverting little skirmish between the President of the University and the Governor of the Commonwealth, though not reproduced with all its spice, is indeed there. Mr. Curley is not shown thrusting out his pugnacious jaw, but Mr. Conant is happily depicted connecting with...
Oppenheim books taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...