Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna it is the custom for children confirmed at St. Stephen's Cathedral to be taken afterwards for a drive through the Prater, then to a pastry-shop where they are allowed to eat their fill of schlagobers (whipped cream). Decade ago schlagobers inspired homey Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little...
Railroads would lose the cream of their traffic in the summer but would have to keep their equipment ready for the winter movement of freight. U. S. carriers to which Reconstruction Finance Corp. has already advanced $350,000,000 are precariously close to bankruptcy and such a subsidy to a competitor would complete their ruin. If the roads were paid what the seaway would cost U. S. taxpayers they could haul free all the grain it would carry and much more besides...
...sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent as they may be envious of his life. One of the ablest of society portraitists, his style is his own, exactly suited for what he tries to do: make a record...
Lemon Ice Cream Roll with Cream Sauce...
...have taken. (In Washington last week they sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dixie.") Proceeds from their U. S. tour, to be taken in a bus labeled "Wiener Sängerknaben Special," will go to the school, not to the boys. Yehudi Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda when he has finished a violin recital. When the Viennese boys sing well they get candy...