Word: spicing
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...long time ago some one said "variety is the spice of life", and people have been repeating it ever since. There is no denying that sameness lags on one after a while...
...whose duty it is to hand out books at the desk in the Main Reading Room of Widener must have read that editorial and have been profoundly moved by its truth. Indeed we believe he took it so much to heart that he determined to do his share to spice the drab existence of the undergraduate with the bright sparkle of wit. Witness the following conversation which we heard repeated three times while waiting for a book last evening...
...spice of Trebizond...
...appetite on the part of the reviewer. Periodicals partake of the nature of boarding houses; the hungry reader can generally envisage the sort of vegetable prose and marshmallow verse that will be set before him. The chefs of the Advocate, unusually expert, have provided this month relishes full of spice and a piece de resistance of original flavor...
Despite the racy notion on which the piece is founded, it affords genuine and, for the most part, wholesome laughs. The spice of the play is not nearly so vicious as that of other less shocking shows that have played Boston this season--"Upstairs and Down," for example...