Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could eat, all the liquor they could drink, beds, valets, and music. And inasmuch as at no time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...
Robert Williams was excellent as Stew Smith, the cynical and garterless reporter. He has a plentiful supply of amusing lines, and he handles these excellently. Loretta Young is capable as the girl pal sob sister, but the producers were rather unfortunate to cast her with Jean Harlow, for the contrast between the two shows all too clearly that Miss Harlow is a very poor actress and rather plain in comparison with Miss Young's almost classic beauty...
...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...
...eggs from Murphy's family of five Japanese hens brought Warden Hill $5 apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according to Warden Hill, those sly buyers broke up the eggs, put the yolk & whites in small capsules, and prescribed the encapsulated eggs...
...chimney. Friends attempted to hoist food to him by kites and the police cut the string. Kiyoshi sat on his chimney. Police threatened to light a fire under the chimney. Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and continued to sit on his chimney. Police sent up a tasty fish stew, flavored with sleep-inducing drugs in the hope that the famished Kiyoshi would partake of it, fall off. Finally the owners of the factory, realizing that for the honor of Tokyo Kiyoshi must come down, agreed to reinstate the discharged workmen. Police screamed the news through megaphones. Stiffly victorious Kiyoshi Tanabe climbed...