Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Millions of loyal subjects listening by radio while King George opened "Queens-way," world's largest underwater tunnel at Liverpool, could scarcely hear the royal words because of a thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this lèse-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...
...with writing the constitution of 1918. When he became President, he resolved to take the U.S. out of Haiti. Last year he put through a treaty agreeing to get the Marines out of the Garde d'Haiti by Oct. 1 this year. Last April Haiti's cream-colored, egg-shaped President Stenio Vincent called on the U.S. and, between sales talks for Haitian rum and an $11,000,000 refunding loan, got President Roosevelt's word that he could not take his Marines out too soon. Last week President Roosevelt, two months ahead of schedule, proved that...
...teakwood and cream enamel Royal Train parked one night last week on a siding near Knowsley Hall, vast Lancashire estate of Edward George Villiers Stanley. 17th Earl of Derby.* There is no other peer with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat...
When she retired from the stage in 1918, Maude Adams vowed never to act again. She has broken her vow twice: once in 1931, when she toured in The Merchant of Venice; again last winter when she performed on the radio for Pond's Cold Cream. Last week, Maude Adams, now 62, seemed closer than ever to a real return to the Manhattan theatre where she was No. 1 actress (Peter Pan, Little Minister) in the decade before the War. She opened at Ogunquit, Maine, in Twelfth Night...
Died. Ole Evinrude, 57, developer of outboard motors, president of Elto Outboard Motor Co.; after a brief illness; in Milwaukee. Rowing five miles across a lake to get his fiancée some ice cream gave Evinrude the idea of building outboards. With his wife as partner and $5,000 contributed by a friend as capital he started the Evinrude Motor Co. in 1910, sold it for $350,000 three years later...