Word: tabasco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castle has no monopoly on the city or the styx. All over the U.S., promoters last week were filling lobbies with coffins, skeletons, papier-mâché tombstones, skulls with blinking eyes. "Nurses" took patrons' blood pressure, gave them "Courage Cocktails" of tomato juice and Tabasco sauce. Red footprints led down sidewalks to theaters, and bloodstains decorated the walls...
...Howard newspapers, "and the people will find their own way." By generating heat as well, Scripps-Howard's El Paso Herald-Post (circ. 39,794) has long made its way as one of the chain's most profitable and independent-minded dailies. Under Editor Ed Pooley, a Tabasco-tempered maverick who has run the paper for 20 of his 59 years, the Herald has earned Texas-wide renown as an ardent defender of underdogs, whom Pooley, in deference to the border city's heavy Spanish-speaking population, invariably calls Juan Smiths. On their behalf, Pooley...
...hospital was a far livelier place with Johnson there, the U.S. Senate was far less zestful with him gone. His standin, Kentucky's Clements, is a bland, backroom politician whose only spiciness lies in his strong taste for Tabasco sauce, which he pours unstintingly into his soups and salad dressings. In his silent way, Clements has been singularly successful in the business of getting himself elected to public office: he has been a sheriff, county judge, state senator, U.S. Representative, governor and Senator...
...eyed but pretty heavy-lidded. It even lacks the appeal of something sweetly out of date. The reason, perhaps, - is that the lovers are no longer the real story, but merely the required treacle in a seamy-side-of-Paris musical. The rest of Seventh Heaven is almost all tabasco - streets of Paris and streetwalkers and street dances, apaches and sailors, madams and midinettes, and a pimp who stops a bullet...
...Start with a pinch of salt. Add the juice of half a lemon, half a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, two dashes of Tabasco, two jiggers of vodka. Mix well with eight to twelve ounces of chilled tomato juice. Sip slowly.-ED. No Place Like Jerome...