Word: spicing
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...fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from this sowing of wild buds to the more dependable arms of the man. . . . The spice of mockery blended with creamy whimsicality in a mold of sophisticated prose poetry is apparently the staple produce of Author Ronald Fraser, young and English, who last year charmed international esthetes with Landscape With Figures, his first novel to be published...
...believes that the leading Conference teams could win at least six out of ten games from Yale, Harvard or Princeton, as they believe they could in the long run from Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the Army of the Navy. But a few more intersectional games would add a lot of spice to any football season. The Big Ten Weekly
...There is a story current that a certain young lady counted the number of lines devoted to the introduction, the development, the exposition, the climax and the conclusion of a Saturday Evening Post story, and duplicated it with a different setting, slightly different characters, and a touch more of spice, submitted the resulting confection, and received a check immediately. Knoblock has found the same royal road to riches...
...others that come up to the level of the thirteenth century set. The lighting obviously, hampered by the practical difficulties the museum offered was aucortain, inaccurate, and showed little plan behind its questionable striving or "effects". Of the costumes only those on which little trouble had been taken--spice, in fact the best, borrowed from the recent production of the "Orange Comedy are very successful. The costumes of the more important characters ranged from the operatic ridiculousness of the High Priest "tastefully gowned in red with pearls and brilliants" set off with an amazing false Card of first dynasty Egyptian...
...trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between her and the President. She tries to make him see that his friends...