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Word: creaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best foreign exhibit-obviously designed to win U. S. friends-is the Japanese pavilion. An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Not So Golden Gate | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...legislators in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat in a Gravesend bus and, as her collapse wedged her inextricably between the seats, the whole bus had to be driven to the hospital. An unseasonable drought half ruined the strawberry crop (strawberries and clotted Devonshire cream is a favorite English dish this time of year), but the countryside had seldom looked greener. Elsewhere in Europe the heat wave also spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hot | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Peaches-&-cream Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll asked Paramount a favor: a change of title for her new film (Are Husbands Necessary?). Reason: she is getting a divorce from her husband, Mayfairite Captain Philip Astley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Gordon of Lowell is the cream of a rather skimpy crop of outer gardeners. Gordon starts very quickly and makes fly-shagging look easy. His roamings this spring from his centerfield post carried him over about two-thirds of the Bellboy outfield. He is flanked in right field by Fran Simpson of Kirkland and in left by Bob Ridder of Leverett...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Lowell and Adams Each Place Three Men On All-House Nine | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Forty-three ounces of gray-streaked pigeon flesh flapped into the Union dining hall sun porch at 5:51 o'clock last night, terrifying dozens of Yardlings, who had been peacefully drinking their cream of spinach soup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGEON FLIES INTO UNION DURING SUPPERTIME RUSH | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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