Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back room is the room. About 75 beds take up most of the floor space. ... Off in the back corner is a walled-off room with free showers, about a dozen of them. Free towels, free soap, free razor, razor blades, shaving cream, after shave lotion, tooth paste...
...bill was open admission that the Quartermaster Corps had done a substandard job of housing soldiers, building flying fields, providing industrial facilities, storehouses, new roads and railway trackage for the great national defense emergency. It was recognition of what seemed an obvious fact: that the Engineers, staffed by the cream of West Point graduating classes of the past 20 years, buttressed by crack reservists and National Guardsmen from the country's best technical jobs, could do the job with vastly more efficiency...
...noon hour last week two slim, trim, pretty girls, with yellow hair and peach-&-cream skin, met in the cafeteria on the roof of Washington's new Social Security Building, lunched together for the first time...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...
...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...