Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's best-known stamp collectors are George V of Britain and Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U. S. Philatelists know that the world's greatest stamp collectors were Count Philippe la Renotiere von Ferrari of Austria and Arthur Hind of Utica, N. Y. who bought the cream of the Ferrari collection on the Count's death and who died last March at the age of 77 (TIME, March 13). Last week the most important philatelic event since the Ferrari sale of 1922 occurred in Manhattan when the first part of the great Hind collection was auctioned...
...into such prominence that the whole dinner will seem to revolve around it. If the means described should sound theatrical, that is only because we have come to associate LIGHT AND ITS EFFECTS with the theatre. Try throwing over the back of the empty chair some soft material in cream or old ivory. . . . Place [a light] below the chair, but so the light shines up into it. Just before the Grace is sung, switch off all the lights in the room except . . . the light which shines on the chair. Its presence will be felt throughout, even though the other lights...
...high heels and inquiring why it is bad form to tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren's attention, Junior pushes over a traffic cop, goes to jail. Though this experiment is unsuccessful, a new dog and girl console him. Meanwhile his sister, faring better, develops a working...
...annual meetings of the National Academy of Sciences resemble a five-ring circus much less than do the gatherings of the less exclusive American Association for the Advancement of Science. But the Academy meetings are by no means sideshows. With a membership limited to 300, the academy enrolls the cream of the nation's men of science. For three days last week this cream and a few distinguished visitors assembled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, read 45 papers in Eastman Lecture Room...
...absence of Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin escorted Mrs. Roosevelt in to her first State dinner. Mrs. Roosevelt had chosen pink chrysanthemums and pompons for her table decorations. Her menu: clear soup with whipped cream, Thinsies, filet of trout, tomatoes & cucumbers, turkey, green beans, creamed cauliflower, sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, cream cheese balls & pineapple salad, beaten biscuits, ice cream & cake...