Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...
School & Sodas. Eye-filling Elizabeth Taylor is no such problem. In fact, she is no problem at all. Elizabeth has only a little temperament and almost no side; she pretends to no more learning than she needs, reads little besides movie magazines, hates school, loves ice-cream sodas, convertibles and swimming pools, and admires big strong...
...welcoming Britons were in holiday mood; children carried British and Danish flags and ice-cream cones. The crowd was so anxious to see the warriors (in private life Danish dockers, policemen, tradesmen and bricklayers) that they crashed the press seats and part of the official committee's platform. Toasts were drunk in mead, a drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark...
With its four jet engines screaming like tortured banshees, Britain's De Havilland Cornet, the world's only jet airliner, took off on its first test flight last week and flew for 31 minutes over Hertfordshire. Test Pilot Captain John Cunningham made a cream-smooth landing and reported the flight "entirely successful...
...Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...