Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short of education and loutish of manner; even after he had become the richest man in the country and an intimate of statesmen, he ate ice cream and peas with his knife and wiped his fingers on his neighbors' clothing. But the territory he controlled was larger than Western Europe, its security was protected by strings of private forts erected and maintained by Astor, its commerce was served by a vast private fleet that carried countless thousands of furs to Europe, China, India and South America. In matters of border disputes over the fur trade, the government of Great...
...stands at 77.* Jackie Kennedy's French chef, René Verdon, will stay on-but mostly to perform for fancy official affairs. For everyday eating, Lady Bird brought along Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnsons' cook for 21 years. Zephyr is an expert at spoon bread, homemade ice cream and monumental Sunday breakfasts of deer sausage, home-cured bacon, popovers, grits, scrambled eggs, homemade peach preserves and coffee...
...which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream are as suspect as they are essential to French cuisine. The French even treat their dogs and cats for crises de foie...
...busy freight yard, relieved himself in a gondola car-where a load of steel plates suddenly shifted, crushing his leg. That same year, the Court took up the case of a ship's baker who had grabbed a sharp knife instead of a scoop to serve hard ice cream and lost two fingers when the knife slipped. In both cases, the Supreme Court decided for the injured...
...questions of fact that had been reviewed already by lower courts. All through the '30s, Justice Louis Brandeis had maintained that position. In 1957 Justice Frankfurter's impatience boiled up, and he refused to participate in any more such cases. In an angry dissent on the ice cream case and three others, he said: "The Court may or may not be 'doing justice' in the four insignificant cases it decided today; it certainly is doing injustice to the significant and important cases on the calendar and to its own role as the supreme judicial body...