Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lifted reverently from the graves were many pyxides, the small, handsomely ornamented pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...
Poisons Out. The day begins with John A. Gambling, who can out folksy all his competitors in handing out homey chatter on gardening and pets, giving advisories on schools closed by weather, reading notices of church suppers, rummage sales and ice cream socials. Almost singlevoicedly, Gambling comes as close as anyone can to transforming New York Radioland into a single, small town community. He plays occasional records by genteel orchestras and hearty sing-along groups. When his show goes off the air at 9 a.m., there is no more music on WOR for the next seven hours...
...Cream and Sugar, Please, Jack...
...easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge of intimate White House history. The Green Room, she noted, "used to be the dining room, and here Jefferson gave his famous dinners and introduced such exotic foods as macaroni, waffles and ice cream to the United States." Woodrow Wilson so detested the stuffed animal heads with which Theodore Roosevelt had adorned the state dining room that he always "seated himself in such a manner that he would not see them while dining." Showing off the Lincoln bed, Jackie remarked dryly: "Every President seemed to love...
Lover Come Back. Stanley Shapiro, one of Hollywood's more competent make-'em-laugh-till-they-gag men, has served up a grand old turkey of a plot-the mistaken-identity bit-and has stuffed it with plenty of giggles. Dessert: a couple of cream puffs called Rock Hudson and Doris...