Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PEPPER CO., fourth biggest U.S. soft-drink maker (1953 sales: $10 million), will soon come out with a new "throwaway can" in a bid for a bigger market outside the South, will start put with both 6-oz. and 12-oz. sizes in ten cities, then gradually expand the idea nationwide...
...Then Pepper Martin and the Gas House Cardinals of 1931 whipped the Athletics in the World Series, and the fans deserted Connie Mack Stadium once more. After World War II there were a couple of good seasons; then everything went to pot. Connie today is too old (91) to help his team; his two sons, Roy and Earle, have neither the talent nor the money to keep the A's fighting...
According to Correspondent Alex Campbell, a South African Bushman will eat anything from a mouse to an elephant. In the Okovanggo swamps of Bechuanaland in 1951, he sampled a Bushman meal: "They produced an elephant foot, spiced with cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper, wrapped in wet clay and baked for five hours in a scooped-out anthill. The result was a pleasant, jellylike dish which tasted like baked oyster. While waiting for it to bake we had an hors d'oeuvre which tasted like popcorn-fried flying ants and wild honey...
...from the outer darkness for a second round, this time with a red carnation. The desk beside him became a pantry, manned by his assistant. Morse guzzled milk, soup, four glasses of orange juice, three cups of tea. All the while, he solemnly complained that the soup had "enough pepper to choke a horse," that the juice was canned and the tea soapy. Between complaints he discussed such affairs of state as Alaska statehood, the Montana primary election and antimonopoly features of the monopolistic Post Office Department. At 7:30 loose-jointed Bill Langer stumbled in. "Good morning...
Modern Minotaur. In Monsieur Folantin, Huysmans does much the same kind of thing for a cantankerous old bachelor with stomach trouble whose only quest in life is a good place to eat. Huysmans adds the pepper of cosmic malice and by the time he finishes tightening the belt of loneliness and despair around M. Folantin's spiritual midriff, ashes seem the principal diet of mankind...