Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen after-dinner coffee cups &saucers, ten dozen bouillon cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with rims of gold, a cobalt blue band bearing 48 stars, roses and feathers (from the Roosevelt coat of arms), and the President's seal on the rim. Delivery is promised in time for the Cabinet dinner...
...Lawn Tennis Association, William O'Brien is Public Enemy No. 1. For the past four years U.S.L.T.A. has watched Mr. O'Brien woo away from amateurism the cream of the nation's tennis crop. Last year his prize catch was Ellsworth Vines. With Vines, William Tilden, Bruce Barnes and Vincent Richards, Promoter O'Brien played 75 towns and cities, taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven...
...racketeers. In Egypt he is lured to a sheik's palace, narrowly misses being boiled in oil by the sheik, being murdered by the sheik's prospective son-in-law. He escapes in an airplane. Safe at home, he uses his millions to build an immense ice-cream factory where he feeds an army of young ragamuffins...
...finale of Kid Millions is an elaborate sequence in color, showing chorus girls on skates spinning around a gigantic ice-cream freezer. The best songs in the picture, written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, are "Okay Toots," and "An Earful of Music." Sample jokes...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...