Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose intimates call him "Soapy," had entered the gubernatorial race almost without assets-political or financial. He had served in appointive political jobs-lately as a state liquor-control commissioner-but had never run for elective office. Though he is an heir to the Mennen shaving-cream fortune, he will not get his share until he is 40. His Republican family refused to back his campaign...
Smooth as ice and sweet-looking as ice cream, they stood naked and serene for all to see. They had names like Shirley, Janet, Dottie and Barbara. Their creator, who had carved them in stone and wood, and exhibited them in a Manhattan gallery last week, talked of the little statues with impartial enthusiasm. Sculptor Oronzio Maldarelli, a sure-handed classicist, had spent 13 years on them, working almost entirely from memory and imagination, and had named the figures after friends as a courtesy. "I'm trying to create form, beautiful harmonies of shapes. I wouldn't waste...
...night last week, in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, a cheery, talkative group of 2,000 men & women enjoyed a birthday party. They seemed to be having a fine time, in spite of tackling a routine banquet menu (grapefruit, chicken, peas, ice cream) without any preliminary cocktails. The celebration was the 14th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. The two anonymous founders, Bill, a Manhattan stockbroker, and Bob, an Akron physician, were there to tell about A.A.'s growth...
...Washington, D.C., a tube of brand-name shaving cream sells for 23? v. the Baltimore "fair-trade" price of 39?. A diabetic pays $1.65 for insulin that costs $2.47 in Baltimore. And the fair-traders are working hard to wipe out even these few remaining islands of price competition...
...Cream Biscuits ("These biscuits come as near to uniting the family at the breakfast table as anything...