Word: cream
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jeremiah Gottfried has assembled in staccato sentences 128 recipes: "The booty that one casual observer in foreign kitchens found practical to bring home and too tempting to leave behind." Each recipe has a catch-eye head- ing?some with snap. Examples: "Pilaf: An Extinct Soup"; "Carme-leis: Swoons in Cream"; "Silde-boller: Hamburger with Fins." Eyes which have been caught but perhaps frightened by pilaf, carme-leis and sildeboller are then directed to a consoling, italicized reassurance: The actual instructions for preparing each dish "... are so constructed that one may read each paragraph, then do as directed, then read...
...rare industries in which the horse has not yet become inactive is that of peddling milk. Accordingly there were milk wagon horses; also ice cream wagon horses; commercial delivery horses-all briskly dragging their owner's wagons painted with gaudy signs...
...Story: In recent months one customer out of every five who has bought a Corona Portable typewriter (L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.) has bought a colored Corona Portable.*He purchases either a scarlet, a maroon, a green, a blue, a cream & gold, or a lavender & gold. Red is men's choice. Ivory and lavender are unpopular. Scarlet is popular. English & U. S. society women now have typewriters that do not suggest "business." Of the colored typewriters sold to date: 22 % are Scarlet 17 % are Maroon 18 % are Blue 13 % are Lavender 18 % are Green 12 % are Ivory...
...McGean, aged five weeks, during some of the latter's few waking moments. . . . Motored with Mrs. Baker to see the new home of his friend John Stockwell. Showed special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls to his vacant side lot. (The stalks were later to be spread on flower beds for winter coverage). Forked...
...responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blessed; and among the long list of those who consider themselves the chief sufferers from Prohibition, the name of Andrew...