Word: stew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasant disguise is quoted more often than Lincoln. Santayana and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and just about as often as Franklin and Thoreau. Not many U.S. workers would go along with Grayson-Baker's ideas of the simple life: "Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and homemade bread-there...
...from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much) as one shilling ninepence, the determined pleasure seeker may numb his insides with a 'frosted chocolate snowball' (frozen soya bean flour with mock cocoa gravy), a 'Hollywood Delight' (cold soya stew with ice vegetable jam), a 'Moo-moo Special' (mixed leftovers studded with damaged grapes) or a dollop of 'Stratosphere Kisses' (soya bean sludge and near nougat). A specialty of the maison is the 'Merrie England' full cream hot milk shake (boiled soya stock with...
...Stew. In Litchfield, Minn., the county treasurer pondered the note pinned to an irate citizen's tax return: "The cannibals had a way of solving high taxes . . . they ate the tax collector...
...Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Warner) is a thin Irish stew of vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance...
Francis, who could have settled the Army psychiatrists' problem with a few words, lets them stew in their conferences, finally speaks up to a three-star general (John McIntire). After resuming his silence long enough to cast doubt on the general's sanity, the mule tells off a roomful of war correspondents and wins his own hero's reward...