Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miamians doubted that the great spree was over. That did not mean that grass would grow in the streets in front of the Roney Plaza. As one horseplayer put it: "From now on it'll be lox and bagel* but without the cream cheese...
Barbara Ann, with a peaches-&-cream complexion, saucer-size blue eyes and rosebud mouth, is certainly pretty enough. Her light brown hair (golden now that she bleaches it) falls pageboy style on her shoulders. She weighs a trim, girlish 107 Ibs. neither as full-bosomed as a Hollywood starlet nor as wide-hipped as most skaters. She looks, in fact, like a doll which is to be looked at but not touched. But Barbara Ann Scott is no fragile mammet. She is the women's figure-skating champion of the world...
...empire, Lyons built a 70-acre plant near London to process coffee, tea, custard powder, chocolate. Lyons, which now employs some 30,000 people, sells an average of 770,000 meals and 680,000 cups of tea and coffee a day, turns out 2,000,000 servings of ice cream, nearly 500,000 cakes. At the end of its last fiscal year, it listed total assets of ?19,414,076, reported a net profit for the year...
...morbid rumors that had far-off London wringing its hands. Wife Clementine flew down with her husband's private physician. Next day the patient went motoring, dealt the rumors a crushing blow by dining in public on soup, fish with mayonnaise, veal soufflé, cake with whipped cream, tangerines and coffee...
...reported ducal $75,000 a year, maybe more, if a hoped-for 150 stations buy his transcribed show). As a jockey, the Duke promised to be impressive: his jazz know-how gave his between-platter comments a fine mood indigo. One record, he decided, had a "pear ice cream" flavor; Songstress Sarah Vaughn was "serpentine and opalesque"; Crooner Vic Damone "caressed with satin and gave a back porch intimacy...