Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would grow in profitable quantity in California's soil and climate. Last year he thought he had it, sowed 100 acres with his first crop. It came up in time to meet a market deprived of some 4,500,000 lb. of annual imports from Spain and Hungary. Spice houses gobbled up 60 tons of Seed Man Brown's dehydrated paprika powder, grossing...
...mayor of their town for 32 years. Young William went to America after finishing secondary school, did odd jobs in New York and Milwaukee. In 1908 he married a Philadelphia girl of Dutch descent, who bore him three daughters and a son. He set up a coffee and spice business in Kansas City, Mo., became a top sergeant in the National Guard in World War I. Then he hunted for oil in Texas - and found it, near Wichita Falls. He found more in Oklahoma and in California. In Louisiana he struck it really rich because he found not only plenty...
Baxter's letters are eloquent and solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill...
...Adding spice to its annual salon, the Union Photographic Society has announced a special contest to choose the "Glamor Girl of the East" from among the belles of Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and other female institutions...
...Spice. Pennypincher Taft, urging general economy, called the farm bill "suicidal." The mere word "economy" enrages Texas' Tom Connally in any year; this election year (he is up), it drives him crazy. He took the Senate floor to belabor Mr. Taft, went for him with ridicule and bad grammar. Connally got Mr. Taft in a tight corner when he made him admit that he was for economy but also for farm subsidies. Then South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Appropriation committeeman, remarked that Mr. Taft, although a committee-member, had at no time this year tried to reduce...