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...famed politician but by "John Martin," editor of John Martin's Book ("The Child's Magazine"); 3) it will not be addressed to parents, with advice on infant-raising, but to readers aged 5 to 8. Explained Publisher Delacorte: "It's supposed to entertain them, not make 'em eat spinach...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...
Beeman Barrett was eating a chop with spinach. His back was to the door, and the hotel forbids paging in its dining room. For an hour and a half he continued to eat slowly while bellboys gesticulated from the doorway and the lobby swarmed with buzzing bees. Finally one found its way to its master, lit on his nose. Beeman Barrett quietly put it in his pocket, finished his coffee, went on a beehunt. Amid cheers he retrieved half. The rest are still at large...
...bring this about, Charles Walter Thomas told a Manhattan assembly of mechanical engineers. The machines remove 90% or so of water from the foods (leaving them in a compact, dry condition), remove oxygen (which helps spoil foods), wrap and hermetically seal the dried products. When thus dehydrated, carrots or spinach are reduced to one-tenth of their volume weight, but when again watered cannot be detected from those taken fresh from the garden...
...surprise you. Apparently he has a penchant for duels, has fought two, tried to fight two more (the latest only last year, with "a French man of letters who had said injurious things about Henry James"). He claims to be the inventor of the famed spinach joke, gives his original version: "An absent-minded man took a lady in to dinner. Soles were handed around and he took one with his fingers. Seeing the lady look surprised he said: 'Oh, I thought it was spinach...