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...into the library's great hall, he paused near an ancient statuette of Asklepios and looked at Sargent's The Four Doctors hanging above the fireplace. And Osier again seemed to be saying to him as once before he said: "This is the stock in the soup...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...
...Sirs: "Soup" editorial* was nearly as fine as the soup; for the soup is perfect, but the editorial is faulty. You describe the farmers, "swinging their sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload...
...natured, always ready to clasp the hand, to pass the Spearmint. He is fond of telling how, many years ago, he paused before a South Clark street restaurant, with holes in his shoes and snow on the ground, and spent his last dime for the "Biggest Bowl of Bean Soup in Chicago." Mr. Wrigley will be 68 on the last day of the present month...
Campbell's soup menu lists 21 genera, species and varieties of soup: asparagus, bean, beef, bouillon, celery, chicken, chicken gumbo, clam chowder, consomme, julienne, mock turtle, mulligatawny, mutton, oxtail, pea, pepper pot, printainer, tomato, tomato-okra, vegetable, vegetable-beef. Into the making of these mighty mixtures go okra and sweet pimentoes from the South; peas, corn, lima beans from New Jersey and Delaware; red-hearted Chatanay carrots, in summer from the Finger Lakes (N. Y.), in winter from Brownsville (Tex.); yellow turnips from Nova Scotia; head rice (hard enough to stand cooking) from Patna on the Ganges River; wild Irish...