Word: creamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sicilian went outside and lurked in the narrow, cobblestoned Via della Missione. Shortly before noon, he saw his prey coming out- Togliatti and Leonilda Iotti, full-bosomed, warm-eyed secretary to the Red parliamentary bloc. Togliatti & friend were bound for a gelateria and a cooling dish of ice cream. They paid no heed to the young man in the ill-fitting blue suit...
Chernus churns up the buying fever with a score chart posted in his sales office. Each cream-colored pin in the chart stands for a house being looked over, each red pin for a house sold-and it tells every waverer at a glance that he is wavering against time. "Our greatest sales," Chernus says, "are between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when the crowds are thickest" (and when the score chart bristles with pins...
...Louis drugstores began selling a ten-scoop, multiflavored ice cream sundae called "Forever Ample...
...Kirman rugs; the marmalade-downwards incidence was found to vary directly with the quality of the carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar-studs, shoelaces, tin-openers, and the Third Programme atmospherics...
After the program, Mlle. Mala stated a few general rules for television makeup. Men should first shave, then apply a foundation cream tinted to suit the complexion. Eye shadow and eyelash cream are also important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week...