Word: choicer
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...amateur cook, turned out to be the owner of a collection of some 5,000 cook books (in all languages), which he has been assembling since his 18th year. He carries on considerable correspondence with dealers around the world, and has turned a nice profit on some of his choicer finds. His favorite dish: beef a la Stroganoff ("a very fast dish once you have everything...
...Colombians are ravished by Gaitan's rhetoric. The press often gleefully reproduces his choicer metaphors. Sample: "I am the dynamo, but the people is the electric charge, and together we make an automobile." The contempt of El Tiempo, spokesman for the old-line Liberal Party, only convinced Gaitan that he needed his own mouthpiece. Last week he had it: La Jornada (The Working Day). As prose, La Jornada's fiery editorials did not compare with El Tiempo's. But they spoke the language of the restless masses who threaten to upset Colombia's old order...
Troops aboard the Queen Mary are fed twice daily, consuming 73 tons of food a day. They sleep Box & Cox on deck, in hammocks and in cramped holds, shoot craps on any cleared deck space. Officers and official passengers are jam-packed into the choicer cabins; nothing less than an ambassador can hope to get space to himself...
There were no food shortages last week, except Irish potatoes, but irregular ship arrivals produce temporary gluts and shortages. Last week housewives were urged to stock up on canned goods; hamburger was too plentiful because prosperous workers bought choicer cuts of meat...
Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has rented a bank in an unnamed inland spot to store its choicer small fossils, a collection of rare Brazilian birds, type specimens of a pygmy elephant, a West African crocodile, etc. The Museum's dinosaur collection, world's best, is not being hurried to safety. "The dinosaurs have already withstood a 200,000,000 year blackout," said a fossil expert, "and they ought to survive the war. Besides, if they are bombed, it might be fun putting them back together again...