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...distinguished members of the New England Botanical Club, Kinsey and Fernald spent days preparing a wild dinner: cold pigweed salad, pickles from cucumber root, bread from the acorns of swamp white oaks, squawberries, a cake of ground hickory nuts filled with blueberries and topped with maple syrup. It was, he reports, a great success...
...calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...
Fantasy without coyness is rare, and fantasy about childhood without overdoses of syrup is even rarer. The 5,000 Fingers, even at its most fantastic, contrives to keep its brisk sense of humor and its matter-of-fact, child's-eye view. The villains employed by Dr. T. are a carefree mixture of pirates, heavies out of The Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group...
...time Joe Martin called his meeting, he knew that Dan Reed was weakening. Both Martin and G.O.P. Majority Leader Charlie Halleck poured a generous pitcher of political syrup. There had been a lot of talk about undercutting his old buddy, Dan Reed, said Joe, and everybody surely knew that was just talk. He respected Dan's position, and wanted to talk to all the committee's Republicans on the President's proposals. He made it clear that the Republican leadership was ready to go down the line for the President...
...Manchester Guardian faint-praised it as "full of sweet sounds that give delight and do not hurt or exacerbate in the least ... A very moving act of homage." The Daily Express said bluntly that "the piece is not stageworthy. The plot is too insipid. The music ... is too syrup-sweet...