Word: creamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to the Jewish School on Anton Pan Street. She was good in her studies and loved poetry. She had few friends; one of them was a girl named Mitzi, who loved cream puffs. One night Mitzi took Ana to a pastry shop with her. Ana stared at the cream puffs. "They look like squashed beetles," she said. Ana's impact on others was strong even then; the aftertaste of the simile made Mitzi give up cream puffs for years...
...Museum. The Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches, the Chamber of Commerce distributed apples. Miss Howe had also arranged for conferences between the new teachers and their principals, shown them around their classrooms. Said Teacher Kenneth Means: "Portland's wonderful. I think we'll stick for quite a while...
...Waynesburg, Pa., was hiccuping last week 10 to 25 times a minute, as she has since last Feb. 23. She has not tried Syvertson's method. Suggestions received in 8,000 letters have included such standard remedies as breathing in & out of a paper bag and eating ice cream. Doctors at Greene County Memorial Hospital have tried sedatives, anesthesia, benzyl benzoate (a relaxing drug), quinidine sulfate (a quinine-like drug used to regulate abnormal heart rhythms), amyl nitrite (a drug used to treat angina pectoris...
...hall, laid down and enforced a code of manners (sword-wearing and smoking in front of ladies were banned), ordered all the old ladies to sit in the back rows and all the shyest maidens to dance. The plump, dandiacal "King of Bath," whose crown was an enormous cream-colored beaver hat, ruled society like an autocrat.* Graceful new Georgian buildings transformed Bath into the handsomest of English towns...
Stylist. In Queens, N.Y., Marie Flynn was still looking for the door-to-door beautician who had offered her a free demonstration, then cut off most of her hair, smeared her head with cold cream, and disappeared...