Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the cream of the milking, the grade A girls, are pretty well pleased, while all the others who managed to keep out of "no man's land", that area where strangely enough the signs of battle are least in evidence, can't kick. And at least the tail enders can console themselves with the thought that they are in the majority, which is what counts in this democratic country of ours...
...Hash, despised in most eating halls, attained surprising popularity the one time that it was served this Fall. Ice cream, particularly when accompanied by macaroons, is the most reliable best seller, while apple pudding wins the verdict over...
...decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk of the man who came in and demanded a scarlet casket with scarlet lining...
What worried Headmaster Richards, however, was the way the big Eastern preparatory schools pulled the cream of Midwestern youngsters across the Alleghenies to school. He resolved that Lake Forest should equal the Eastern schools in educational facilities and plant. In 1927 he set out to raise $1,000,000 from alumni and wealthy Chicagoans. The money will build dormitories, commons, a science hall, a headmaster's house, a chapel in memory of onetime (1897-1900) Head master Alfred Gardner Welch, who died of exposure after saving a group of students who drifted out on Lake Michigan...
...home. A porcupine named Albino spiked apples with its quills, carried them to the cider mill. A hen after thawing out the water spigot on cold mornings by silting on it, turned it on, drank. A Maltese cat, with a harelip, whistled "Yankee Doodle." A cold cow gave ice cream. Jim. Pete and Dick, trout, were fed New-Year's dinner with a silver spoon. Copycat Mortison. Early this year it seemed Winsted's animals might be spreading when from Waterbury, Conn, were reported some chicks which had hatched out in fur instead of feathers. Investigation proved this...