Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most striking of these was the proposal that the government select the intellectual cream of the high school graduates and give them a college education at government expense, pointing toward specialized war work. Peace-time pundits would be aghast at the mere thought, raising the cry of government control of education with all its totalitarian implications. There are dangers in subsidization from Washington, but even in normal days they could be successfully controlled. At any rate, the plan seems eminently feasible as a crisis measure; in the sort of war we are now waging it might well...
...past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes theatrical, has blue spiders embroidered on his cream-colored silk shirts, his pajamas and his underwear...
...noble traditions and wasted opportunities and decay, its kindly and brainless aristocrats, the weird customs and stately orgies of its men's clubs, the gastronomic peaks of its cuisine. "In all the world," says Felix's lawyer at lunch, "there is no equal of Philadelphia strawberry ice cream. In fact, I might say that outside of Philadelphia no one knows what ice cream really...
...camera has a lot to say in Pulham, and says it without mumbling. It has the picture's opening sequence all to itself: the boiled egg on the breakfast table, sugar and cream enriching the coffee, the morning paper in its rack, the absent-minded good-by kiss, the derby, the rubbers, the two peanuts for the squirrels on his walk to the office, the breathing exercises in the park, the cigar at the old stand, the musty office, the waiting letters on his desk, the clock at exactly 9 a.m. After that sequence, with hardly a spoken word...
...from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square-rigged yacht, Sea Cloud, which bugged the eyes of Leningrad. To be secure from hunger Ambassador and Mrs. Davies took with them 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of frozen cream...