Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Turnips. The critics were kind, found some subtleties to admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...
...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...structure had been in evidence for six weeks. But what did these signs portend? Alarmists detected evidence of galloping depression. Others believed that it was just a case of a leveling-off of prices, that the patient's chart looked good and that nothing was needed but some turnip greens and a good belt of sulphur & molasses...
Against Inflation. On the economic front, Congress would be asked to take steps to control inflation. In his message to the "Turnip Day" session last July, the President had asked for stand-by powers to control prices, ration scarce commodities and allocate materials in short supply. There was every indication that once again he would demand that power, to be used when necessary...
From almost every viewpoint, the special "Turnip Day" session had been a failure. Neither side had gained any political advantage, although Republican refusal to act made it easier for Harry Truman to pin a do-nothing label on the 80th Congress. But New York's Senator Irving Ives dropped a loud hint that Tom Dewey would probably disassociate himself from the G.O.P. congressional record in the campaign...