Word: liverwurst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final effort of one voyage was a spontaneous performance of Bach's B Minor Mass by some vacationing members of the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs which had elements of sincerity if not harmony. On the same trip, a strange organization known as the Liverwurst and Yodelling Society appeared and kept the boat awake late into the night with loud and beery epics...
...Manhattan's clangorous Sixth Avenue, a block away from verdant Central Park, stands the garlic-scented Chambers Restaurant and Delicatessen. On one side of the establishment is a bar, on the other a counter piled high with salami, liverwurst and jars of borsch. There, greying...
...dweller), Allen confines himself to kidding Yiddish-English. He seems endlessly aware of new and whimsical wrinkles in the dialect. "When I am a young goil, footloose and fancy," Pansy once related, "I am woiking, a waitress, in Doberman's delicatessen. Is coming every day for lunch a liverwurst salesman. He is a goodtime Irving, a fancy dandy, also floiting a bissel. The liverwurst salesman is to the other waitress, Supreme Feitelbaum, engaged. With ogling, also babytalk, I am stealing him away. For 20 years already he is mine husband Pierre. Crime does not pay!" Pierre...
...Love You, I Love You (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942), will be disappointed. In its 153 pages they will find the usual bitter-sweet taste and tragicomic personalities-freakish but heartwarming outcasts; birds and animals with the attractiveness of charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia, trouble and human patience. But at the heart of these things is a brood of despicable Nazis; and when he comes down to earth to describe their piggish, ruthless natures, Bemelmans drops his magic wand for an unwieldy club...
...drug on the market. Many a butcher took advantage of OPA's concession that point values may be cut if stocks are in danger of spoiling. Too many butchers took advantage: OPA debated canceling its rule and letting the honest dealer's meat spoil-steaks, chops, liverwurst...