Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What started it was a love feast ten long years ago. In 1929 Mrs. Verinda Brown had sat down at the paradisal table set by Father Divine with chicken, ham, potatoes, rice, corn, cabbage, scalloped tomatoes, hominy, carrots, beets, a two-foot cheese, five different kinds of pie, ice cream, and "two cakes as big as automobile tires." After three hours, she rose and cried: "I feel different than when I came...
...means surrendering their last talon-hold in North China, have hung on like eagles. Some of China's best fighting men are there, reports Reporter White: the hard-riding cavalry of General Ma Chan-shan, "Giant Horse,"hero of Manchuria; the famous Communist 8th Route guerrillas; the cream of China's Government troops; and provincial troops, who are fighting for the soil on which they grew up. Early in the war, the Japanese chased the Chinese from the great alluvial plain around Peking into Shansi's mountains. Fighting has ranged, and still ranges, all over the province...
...opening of the opera. If it wants to see movie stars, it can hang on the ropes at any Hollywood opening. But if it wants to see tycoons, the place to look is at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers. Last week the heavy cream of tycoonery floating on a Grade A selection of 2,500 substantial U. S. businessmen poured through the lobbies of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria between sessions of N. A. M.'s 44th three-day Congress of American Industry...
...only too eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their lack of cohesive force, liberals have drifted in countless directions and allowed the privilege of their majority to fall into disuse. Far from a redpurge is the real solution. Rather it is the reawakening of cream-puff liberals--the formation of a solid front which will assume the rightful leadership of a majority...
Hilarious scene: Nick's underworld friends bringing their babies (about two dozen) to sing Happy Birthday to Nick Jr. When they proffer baloney, salami, beer and pop for refreshments, Nick sends for ice cream. "It will be up in a minute," he says. Queasy Nora's ageless comeback: "You're telling...