Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poisons. Most food poisoning, popularly known as ptomaine poisoning, comes from eating custards, ice cream or sausages which contain staphylococcus germs, usually occurs in the summer, if these foods are not kept...
Bill DeMerritt, cream of the Terrior pitching corps, will again get the call from Coach Mel Collard to face the Stahlnine. Last week he stifled the Crimson bats, allowing only two hits, but went down to defeat as a result of costly miscues by his mates...
...there are so many good-looking men here at Yale," said one of the feminine members of the West Orange, N.J. High Youth Hostelers. "I'll say, the cream of the crop," answered another. Led by a member of the German Department the Hostelers are bicycling their way through New England during the Easter Vacation.... "Gosh, did Franklin Roosevelt go to school here?". When politely, but firmly, told that FDR went to Harvard and that Harvard had no buildings comparable to Freshman Commons, the signed whisper came back, "But they have the reputation." -Yale News, April...
When World War I came, Percy got into bed, crammed down quarts of cream and dozens of raw eggs, made enough weight so that he could get into the A. E. F. He was made a captain, cited for bravery. He got back in time to help his father drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Greenville, Miss., after a two-year fight. That taught him what Nazis were like ten years before most people knew about Nazis...
...average Main Street American is convinced of being the best type of man in the world, of living in the best country in the world, of being possessed of the best political and social constitutions in the world, with the best newspapers, the best universities, the best ice cream, the best Masonic lodges and so on up to the electric chair, which is undoubtedly the best system of execution in the world...