Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Past Smokers have usually been held in Memorial Hall or Sanders Theatre, and have featured each time an impressive list of entertainers to assuage the spring fever of the Yardlings. Candy, ice cream, soft drinks, and cigarettes are distributed free, and the evening often lasts for a hilarious four hours or more...
...Cream in the Well (by Lynn Riggs, produced by Carly Wharton & Martin Gabel) is a morbid but uncompelling picture of incestuous love on a farm near Verdigris Switch in the Indian Territory, 1906. Eugene O'Neill handled the ticklish theme better and only the Greeks really did it well...
...studies voice; Meyer Jr., who fiddles and may follow his father's course; Garry, a trumpeter; Emery, a composer-pianist; Marjorie, a pianist. The Davis family assembles on Sundays, if at no other time, always eats the same dinner, a good one ranging from cheese souffle to ice cream, Madeira and coffee...
...Bemelmans' artist eye, Quito appeared from above "as if made of marzipan crawling with numberless black flies." The Quito train was small, baroque and red with "banisters . . . that belong to an old brownstone house." Restaurant signs en route read: Hays Krim (Ice Cream), Airistiu (Irish Stew) and Wide Navel Wiski (White Label Whisky). In a hotel, whose walls were papered with copies of the Schweizer Hausfrau, he could read useful pointers on the cure of hemorrhoids and on what to do if encumbered with a hat, an umbrella and a lighted cigar when approaching a lady...
...Japan they use wooden pillows. A pillow fight there means something. Similarly in America, we have the National Association of Manufacturers, and consequently, a controversy over the contents of social-science texts is no cream-puff affair. Somebody raised the cry that many school books are "subversive" and "un-American"--and so the aforementioned industrial patriots felt called upon to conduct an investigation of their own. With characteristic impartiality, they placed an assistant professor of banking in charge of the inquiry...