Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season...
...have heard, there recently has been published in Cambridge a "University Blue Book" which supposedly lists the social cream at the "Big Three", Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Out of its three hundred odd names, only 40 or so local boys are included, and many of these are not from our best known families. While such details as prep schools and clubs are included, most of the boys' claim to fame seems to be that they are 10th generation American. One man says he belongs to the 14th generation American, which is certainly tracing it back . . . and back . . . and back...
...could never pronounce that word; of the first week of college packed with inspiring speeches that always began with the word "Men!" He remembered the buffet supper in the Union; the laughter at the Tally-ho joke; the speeches in P. B. H., and the ice cream he didn't get. Hazy memories, but brought back in sharp relief by the sight of these young, eager faces...
...collectors' eyes, but none of England's famed potteries has quite so hoary or famed a past as Wedgwood. The first Josiah set up for himself in 1759, nine years later built a factory on 1,000 acres of land at Hanley. He became famous for his cream-colored earthenware (called ''Queen's Ware" for George Ill's Charlotte), was respected for improving turnpike roads, founding schools and chapels, was hated for espousing the cause of the upstart American colonies. Bit by bit the Wedgwoods disposed of their land, until a bare five-acre...
...sympathy for the American colonies has proved prophetic. Of the 2,000,000 pieces of pottery the Wedgwoods make and sell for about $1,000,000 each year, over 50% are sold in the U. S. and Canada, where the favorite pattern is undecorated, embossed, cream-colored. So vital is the U. S. market that when the company's representative in Manhattan, Kennard Laurence Wedgwood, was made chairman in 1930, he stayed right where he was. The only thing which takes Chairman Kennard back to England is the annual stockholders' meeting, tantamount to a family reunion since...