Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most highly publicized execution in months and a banner opportunity for Britain's No. 1 Anti-Capital-Punishment Crusader, plump Mrs. Violet Van der Elst. The widow of a Belgian shaving-cream tycoon (Shavex), her jail-gate antics before the hanging of British murderers used to fill British authorities with quiet amusement but they do so no longer. With her Shavex-colored limousine, sound trucks blaring hymns, hired sandwich men and airplanes scattering leaflets, "Sweet Violet," as the penny press calls her, can be counted upon to draw large crowds of gawpers who mill about, tie up traffic...
...patients was a businessman who became abnormally drowsy at 11 o'clock every morning, fell asleep at conferences and while driving his automobile. Dr. Alvarez: "I had him test, one by one, the things he ate customarily at breakfast, and eventually we found that it was the cream in his coffee. Eliminating the cream ended the trouble. It is absolutely startling to see how food influences the brain...
...Mahoney's practice: "Patients are urged to eat solid food very soon after operation, usually the next morning. If not nauseated, they are served a tray the evening of the operative day and encouraged to partake of dry toast, jello, Cream of Wheat and similar articles. Water is permitted by mouth in such amounts as the patient may desire as soon as the nausea has disappeared. When ethylene or spinal anesthesia has been employed, this is usually within one or two hours after the return from the operating room. Where ether has been used, water is ordinarily taken...
Asked what was his favorite dish, North Carolina's Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus replied: "The boy in me always craves ice cream...
...Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty...