Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rambling through a novel of Ludwig Bemelmans is like eating in an expensive Viennese tea shop. The descriptions are like cups of rich chocolate, topped with heavy whipped cream; the plot is as easy to get through as the flaky Austrian pastry; but later on the gourmet may feel that the frothy repast had a residue that is unexpectedly heavy. "Dirty Eddie" has many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the sensuous surface of champagne, nylons, and silly, suggestive talk remains as lush as ever, and if there is any change from the old Bemelmans, it is that...
...then--he tried desperately to besmirch his unsullied life in such dens of vice as Broadway, Hollywood, and Paris. According to his report he remained disgustingly pure. But one wonders. Benchley could hardly have acquired his knowledge of the finer points of life by reading "Colliers" over an ice cream soda at the Y.M.C.A...
...novel's revelation of this embarrassing patrimony, bequeathed along with the family silver and several hundred slaves, is the cream of Author Williams' jest. By the time he has skimmed it, Grant has taken Richmond, hunger has become the chief enemy and the Currains have scattered all over...
...ruble Stalin prize. To this startled group, Zhdanov laid down the Central Committee's charges against Aleksandrov: 1) he had preached a "toothless vegetarianism" toward the philosophical enemies of Marx-Lenin-Stalin; 2) perhaps unsuspectingly, he had become "the prisoner of bourgeois historians of philosophy." The cream of the jest was that such had been the substance of Aleksandrov's charges against many another Soviet intellectual...
Johnson's ample share of this take is assured through the franchise terms which require all owners to pay him a set percentage of their take, buy all their supplies from the Howard D. Johnson Co. The company owns six ice-cream factories, four candy and jam plants, a clam bed at Ipswich, Mass. It provides the restaurants with 700 items, ranging from hot dogs to toilet tissue. The company, being privately owned (chiefly by Johnson), has never revealed its profits. With the 200 new branches, however, other restaurateurs guess that Johnson will not be far from his avowed...