Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scene: a heath near Lowell House. Enter Mr. Westcott with pail of sour cream followed by witches. Thunder and lightning...
...this matter. The newspaper organization of which this paper is a part founded the Medill School of Journalism. . . . The Medill School . . . was founded with the idea of training youngsters to become newspaper men and women. Naturally, the newspaper founding the school expected to have first choice from the cream of each year's crop, and rosy visions were entertained of building up through the years something super-super in the way of newspaper organizations...
...wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits of foolery from the correspondents' dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels...
...Palace price on busy nights is a major grievance. Around dinner tables one evening last fortnight passed word to meet at the theatre. After dinner groups of students, more boisterous than usual, began to gather outside the Palace and across the street at Costa's ice cream parlor. The Palace management, knowing the genesis of a riot when it saw one, quickly called police...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...