Word: stew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst expletive newshawks have felt free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual theme of excoriation. Said he of the constitution: "It is like a bad stew; no stomach is able to digest it." And then: "It exudes such an odor that the street in which Parliament is located smells unpleasantly!" And finally: "A pigsty for the Sejm...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
Resigned, cheerful in prison, she made friends with attendants, embroidered herself a silk shroud. All night before her execution she played whist with friends, stopped at midnight to make them some oyster stew. At dawn she marched off, unsupported, between two guards. She bantered with newsmen, posed for photographers, shook hands with the warden, kissed the guards, walked firmly up the steps to the gallows. Death was instantaneous, for the jerk of the noose cut off her head...