Word: creamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the balcony guests ate ice-cream sandwiches, the downstairs crowd ate Surprise Monteux, a concoction of Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...
...From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who experiment on animals for the joy of "seeing them suffer...
Goodbye to the Dam. In fact, everything is so cream-smooth in New Crete that Poet Venn-Thomas wonders 1) if the magicians, who are vegetarians, wouldn't be better off with a few chunks of red roast beef and 2) why the Goddess ever brought him there...
...Truxtun Beale's, so smart as Mme. Bonnet's at the French embassy. Her menus are adequate but not sumptuous. At the Alben Barkley dinner last week, the 24 guests had turtle soup, filet of beef, peas, browned potatoes, aspic salad, and a rum-and-ice-cream dessert...
Levy told his candymakers to experiment, soon had them producing a new-type candy every day. Blum's now makes 1,308 different varieties of candy, ice cream and cakes (his St. Patrick's Day ice cream is labeled "Erin Ga Blum"). Levy also prodded sales with some merchandising razzle-dazzle, put candy in everything from French porcelain dishes and satin hats to great, flat, silver-wrapped boxes the size of dinner trays. He plugged snob appeal and "personalized" packages. (Singer Hildegarde's is shaped like a grand piano...