Word: tabasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing reviews until he retired in 1943. A kindly observer who occasionally risked being dull in his efforts to be fair, he advised his Daily News successor that Broadway was his oyster: "Season it with a dash of salt and a lot of pep-but go easy with the tabasco...
...Tabasco-tongued Boss Lombardo insists that he has never been a party member, but he faithfully followed the Kremlin's wavy line from start to finish of World War II. Before and since the war, through his C.T.A.L. (Latin American Federation of Labor), Lombardo has worked hard spreading the Communist word through the Latin republics. But now Lombardo seems to be looking the other...
...kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good, clean living." Jim smiled...
...Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...
...reader of the book's real climax - an account of his years in the Administration. While still "a member of President Roosevelt's official family," he explains, "it isn't altogether my fault that I cannot season this particular dish with mustard and cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce as you may have expected me to do." Adds he: "Some day I will write a sequel - a bloody one!" Meantime, he heaves a whole hive of hornets at his recent opponents...