Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chandler, onetime pork-barreling U.S. Senator from Kentucky, had indeed done little as baseball's chief of police except to treat baseball-club presidents to ice-cream sodas to demonstrate what plain, folksy and moral people they all were. He had once summed up his job to a newspaper reporter: "As baseball commissioner I'm compelled to spend the winters in Florida and attend baseball games during the summer. If there is a better job than that, I don't know about it." That was not the way his stern old predecessor Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis regarded...
...University School. Says Peters: "Almost from the time they start first grade, the boys get the idea that scholarship is great stuff. In our school, it's considered good form to do good work." Once a month the older boys with grades of 87% or better get ice cream and cake for dessert, while the dullards eat applesauce or prunes. Each spring Peters declares a half-holiday in honor of old grads who have made Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors at college. He usually picks the day the Cleveland Indians play their opening game...
...Tiki has a bamboo deck and a small bamboo cabin. Two masts support a primitive square sail. Modern conveniences are iron rations, U.S. Army sun-cream, anti-exposure suits. A radio will send daily weather reports to the U.S. Weather Bureau...
...asserted that the rules were not intended to stifle election enthusiasm but merely to curb excesses in campaigning. He referred to the gold fish eating and ice cream consumption contests of pre-war days...
...pleasures by creating a Press Club, and soon a teen-aged horde was released on any loose celebrity around. When Harry Truman visited Chicago last spring, Val suggested to her boss that the Press Club interview the President. "Little girl," said he, "go out and buy yourself an ice-cream cone." But Val talked her boss into it, and Truman agreed. Her conference was the only one the President gave in Chicago. Said Val: "It was precedent-breaking. It made history. It was keen...