Word: stew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something they don't have. The first thing the Europeans talk about is the vitality of the new art in America." Gallery Owner Rose Fried put it another way: "The French can cook up a better cuisine, but right now we've got the more vigorous stew...
...This reporter [recently] remarked to a rising young Connecticut Republican that a good many intelligent people, who would be considered normally Republican, obviously admired Stevenson. 'Sure,' was the reply, 'all the eggheads love Stevenson, but how many eggheads do you think there are?' " Months later, Stew Alsop got around to identifying the man who introduced the word egghead to the modern political vocabulary. The "rising young Connecticut Republican" was Insurance Executive John deKoven Alsop, now 42, youngest brother of Columnists Joseph, 47, and Stewart, 43, and by all odds the least-known of the brothers Alsop...
...there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which was separating just as the drama approached some sort of climax. But I agree with Stew that his own career has to come ahead of the interest of being a Greek chorus...
...breakfast tray, along with grapefruit and coffee, the guest finds a schedule card listing, half-hour by half-hour, her activities for the day, e.g., calisthenics, scalp massage, "intracellular masque," daily manicure and pedicure, a reducing ordeal that consists of being coated with hot wax and left to stew. In between treatments, she is firmly encouraged to drink down plenty of vegetable juices, "potassium broth," and a secret-formula "diet...
Died. Betty MacDonald, 49, hen-raising, hen-hating ranchwife-authoress of the nonfiction bestseller (1945) The Egg and I (later adapted for the movies and TV), whose success egged her on to write others (The Plague and I, Onions in the Stew); of cancer; in Seattle...