Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...openly at good breeding, abuses his visitors because, unlike himself, they failed to blossom from the gutter. The next night the tables are turned. When Big Hearted Herbert brings his best customer & wife to dine pretty Mrs. Kalness (Elisabeth Risclon ) is in a kitchen apron, dishing out an Irish stew. Her husband is "a plain man,'' she proudly says, and invites her guests to "set." Big Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type...
...strikers moved on the Ford plant at Edgewater, N.J., attempted to enlist its 2,000 workers in a sympathy strike, talked of closing every Ford factory in the land. Observers predicted that before matters reached such a pass, Henry Ford would shut up shop entirely, let the workers stew in their own juice. No law could force him, or any other manufacturer, to reopen...
...Arnold Scheifer's restaurant in New York, George Frei is the waiter in the alpaca jacket who serves the veal stew, the fried potatoes and the draught beer. He served them last week with a broad and radiant grin. For years he saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week...
...fiscal big guns: sleek Governor George Leslie Harrison of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury and in the Bank of England, started conversations to determine at what relative point pound, dollar and franc can and should be stabilized...
...always spot such a man. When he comes to a village "whole packs of dogs shuffle after him and water him: a man like that ought to be pitied." He confesses he is fond of bear's meat himself, says he "often ate a huge pot of bear-stew at one sitting. Sometimes I ate three bears in a month...