Word: stew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forget evening jackets and boiled shirts in their baggage. We have drawn ourselves lovely pictures of dining elegantly in mid-air with Commodore Eckener at the head of a flower-decked table . . . but . . . leather coats, woollies and furs will be our evening dress. Hot soup and steaming stew more welcome than cold caviar and chicken salad...
...detests anyhow; and of course all through the first two acts he is there as the iceman and she falls for him. If you have an English A section man or a tutor or any other suitable person who has done you dirt, take him here and let him stew for three hours. He will be remarkably decent to you after that...
Last week when he arrived, alert music-listeners were in a stew of excitement. They longed to see Stokowski and to ask him to play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
...nothing is too trivial for him. In Cincinnati a family was in a stew over the naming of a puppy. In stepped Mr. Fixit (David Austin) of the Cincinnati Post and averted a domestic crisis by naming the puppy "Fixit...
...pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...