Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags in his forepaws. Between the time that she makes her arrangements and the time her guests assemble in the drawing room, the picture has revealed their private lives, rearranged their relations with each other. Carlotta Vance has sold her stock...
...test case Editor Willard E. Hawkins had his 19-year-old daughter, Stephana, concoct "the most impossible, inane and childish semblance of a story that it was possible to conceive." Miss Hawkins produced "Her Terrible Mistake, by Lottie Perkins." It told how "Mary Jane Smith ... a very pretty girl of 17 . . . fell devinely in love with a very nice fellow who was a machinic by the name of Jack Berry." A slick city stranger comes to town, is about to seduce Mary Jane when her "fionce" exposes him as "a villian in sheeps clothing ... a traveling salesman." "O Jack...
...into a goaty little man in an Isotta Fraschini. They introduce themselves from adjoining cots, the former being none other than George Bernard Shaw, the latter Luigi Pirandello. Since they are to be confined for at least a week while their bruises heal, the international playwriting team agrees to concoct a drama to be acted by the asylum's inmates...
...Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed, rushed off to concoct new American Spy Extras. Spies' Report To Tokyo last week Japanese spies, ever industrious but often stupid, carried what they said was a copy of the League of Nation's secret Report on Manchuria, drafted at a cost of more than $400,000 by dyspeptic Lord Lytton...