Word: stew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tackle the job (TIME, Jan. 20), instead picked a longtime officeholder, State Attorney General George Fingold, 49. of Concord. Mass. Herter's consolation prize: candidacy for Attorney General Fingold's job. Republican consensus: 1) primary troubles in the gubernatorial runoff between Fingold and Charlie Gibbons. 2) lamb stew for Vincent J. Celeste in the senatorial elections. Reason: Massachusetts' fairy godmother is no Republican...
...went over to Adams," said one of the boys," and they had oyster stew. Now of course I figured it was the usual gruel, but there were real oysters. And they had a fresh fruit salad...
Fresh fruit salad appears in Lowell House about as often as does oyster stew. This correlation may be stated with some exactness, since neither has appeared on the menu during the memory of the oldest inhabitants...
...most awesome to the Lowell denizens, however, were the complaints heard in Adams. "They complained," said one Lowellian. "You know," said another, "those guys looked at the fresh fruit salad, and they looked at the oyster stew, and one of them said to me, 'Oh no, not again...
...Guinness gleefully paraded himself before the public in a glorious album of absurdities. He has been a larcenous bank clerk, a commuting bigamist, a middle-aged suffragette, a bootleg genius, a buck-toothed fiend, a garden editor who liked vegetables better than people, the contents of a cannibal stew, a family of eight, an intellectual...