Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the cream stucco Imperial Hotel, beneath the propeller-blade fans, zealots and schemers argued, intrigued and speculated in more tongues than the Ganges has mouths. When they repeated to each other (as they often did) that now at last Britain's colonial policy had lumbered to the point where Whitehall really wanted to free India, hope revived. When they reflected (as they often did) that civil war had never been closer, despair reached .its depth. The issue seemed to turn on one man-Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Last week all India watched Jinnah's words and actions...
...Cream Pie. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. William Rogers smacked her lips over the pie her husband had baked, stopped abruptly when she learned what he had used for shortening: cold cream...
...second night, la repetition generate, is the real first night. To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society. Not till the third night, or première, can the general public buy seats, and then only the worst...
...petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
...will do with the millions of tons of ships it cannot use or sell. As insurance, which it considers cheap, it hopes to keep at least 20,000,000 tons in "standby" condition. Estimated cost (in the Commission's own winning words): the price of one ice-cream soda a year for everyone...