Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better than Liniment. Gun Bow is a race horse calculated to take anybody's breath away. A strapping (16 hands) four-year-old, he was bred by Elizabeth Arden Graham, the cosmetics manufacturer, who insists on rubbing Ardena cold cream on her horses' legs (she claims that it is better than liniment). Sired by the stallion Gun Shot, who broke down before he could prove his racing potential, foaled by an undistinguished War Admiral mare, Gun Bow showed practically nothing as a two-year-old. Last year he won six races and a respectable $41,292. Faced with...
...claiming that the carbon dioxide that turns the stuff fizzy also turns their stomachs acid. Contrariwise, others take a glass of plain soda to settle their acid stomachs. Many sufferers gulp black coffee, which actually stimulates an empty stomach to produce more acid, and may be irritating; coffee with cream is "buffered...
...little, they say, what the ulcer patient eats-he may have steak and French fries with catchup and a cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning to find that for some ulcer patients this "cure" is worse than the disease-like bicarb it throws them far enough over on the alkaline side that they can develop alkalosis...
...health, left him unable to talk. He heartened priests, preached long sermons, blessed edifices of various kinds, and everywhere took delight in children. At one town he poured milk into the mugs of several hundred assembled urchins. In a penniless orphanage he committed himself to vast purchases of ice cream for kids, and, reminded that he must always raise money for the missionary society and much more besides, reduced some little girls to giggles by saying, "If you ever marry a millionaire, introduce...
...menace identified as Paul's granddad (Wilfrid Brambell). Though everyone remarks how clean he looks, Granddad is patently a lecherous old billygoat and a born troublemaker. His ultimate mischief is to persuade Ringo to defect from show biz to the outside world-a disaster certain to deprive the cream of Britain's youth of any reason to survive puberty...