Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks each September that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...
...Arizona, the rest of his time mostly in Manhattan. His writing style is marked by sentences without verbs and other syntactical vagaries. He dislikes bores, boobs, poseurs and stuffed shirts, has been known to walk out on parties when the talk irritated him. He is extremely fond of ice cream, fascinated by psychoanalysis, bothered by insomnia, the lack of parking space in Manhattan and the idea of death...
Most golf fans agreed with him. Favorites among the 170 cream-of-the-crop golfers who qualified for last week's tournament were: happy-go-lucky Jimmy Demaret (winner of half the tournaments on the winter circuit), up-&-coming little Ben Hogan (who finished in the money in 16 tournaments this year), long-swatting Sam Snead, a mechanically perfect golfer, and onetime Open Champions Ralph Guldahl (1937-38) and Byron Nelson (1939)-none of them over 29 years...
...said he liked any food "that flies through the kitchen." Sea food was still his favorite dish, terrapin in any form his prime favorite, with a gastronomic nook always reserved for kedgeree, a dish of flaked white fish, rice, hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which he downs before...
Principle of Dr. Myerson's "True-Blend" teeth: the inner body of porcelain is made in one of ten different shades from cream to orange, matched to a patient's original teeth, or to his complexion. Over this core, corresponding to the dentine of "natural teeth, Dr. Myerson slips a transparent grey enamel coat...