Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Eleanor Roosevelt began radiorating for pay in 1932 (after her husband was elected President), she has worked for Simmons ("Beautyrest") mattresses, Johns-Manville building materials, typewriters (for a group of manufacturers), Selby shoes, Pond's cold cream. Total proceeds: about $150,000. Until she learned better, she gave all of it to charity, paid the taxes on it herself. Now she deducts income taxes first, hands out the rest. Her favorite outlet is the American Friends (Quaker) Service Committee, which will receive her net proceeds from Sweetheart Soap...
...year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...
...German people love to eat heartily. Since they cannot in wartime eat heartily, Hermann does it for them, consuming cream puffs by the dozen, wolfing huge helpings of everything, dirtying his sleeves and vest in the process. He plays Falstaff both because it is good politics and because he likes the role. "Look at me!" he roars, slapping his enormous stomach. "I have lost pounds in the service of the country. Why do you complain at cutting down your meals a little?" It makes no difference to unser Hermann or his people that the 40 pounds he lost last year...
...opinion of the Committee after studying figures on costs compiled by Mr. Durant and after sounding out student opinion on the subject, that the economy which would be effected by eliminating the alternate dishes always available in the dining halls (fruit salad, second portions, club sandwiches, ice cream, etc.) would be far too small to justify the corresponding reduction in the variety of food offered to students...
...worldlywise, traveled, smart-alec, young son of a rich American father so ghastly nauseated that he would fall overboard from an ocean liner in order, for purposes of the plot, to be rescued by a fishing smack. A Wheeling "stogie" did the trick-not an overdose of ice cream sodas, as in the movie version. The lad was no sissie...