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Word: creams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream bar as she left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Press | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...adult life to composing one of the literary masterpieces of the times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early Failure | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

They demonstrated lustily. But the enthusiasm was turned off & on by the convention bosses as though they were flipping a switch. From the corridors well disciplined marching and cheering squads moved on to the floor. Even in the middle of their well-organized frenzy the demonstrators briskly bought ice cream from the hawkers in the aisles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: The Pink Pomade | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...time the navy boys come back for their snack, the population has turned up in such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy weaned his pig, and all the while the guards are after restraining the onlookers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Border Raid | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Disappearing Act. In Los Angeles, a persistent burglar returned for a third attempted looting, left for good when Householder Joyce Lynne Murray hurled a jar of vanishing cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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