Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination and intolerance soon had a spokesman. Bellowed Texas' Ed Gossett: "The bill rewards the least deserving, the least desirable and the most dangerous of all people who would like to come to this country. . . The cream has been skimmed off those camps time & time & time again," until only "the dregs were left...
...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
...began drably. Well into November the best that Broadway could offer was such a mere second helping as Life with Mother, such hokum-with-cream as Edward, My Son. After that, the season got color in its cheeks, feathers in its cap. At award time, there were no surprise winners: Death of a Salesman had been as excitedly received as any new drama in years, South Pacific saluted with adjectives that rarely come a musical...
...Free ice-cream cones went to the winners as the price of victory. The 'Cliffe team also elected Dianne Werts '51 captain for next season...
...worn, plump, pallid figures never looked posed; they were painted as Bishop had first sketched them, in the park or subway or on the street, licking ice-cream cones, reading newspapers, chatting on park benches. There was no glamour in Bishop's handling of them, and no heavy realism either. Her models might be too rumpled and dispirited for Vogue magazine, but they shared a dreamlike solemnity and detachment that is seldom found on the street...