Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cream Bomb. Last week a 17-year-old high-school student died an agonizing death after eating a tainted cream puff, the kind known here as a creme bomba. That bomb exploded into a riot. Hundreds of fellow students attacked the shop that sold the poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes...
Princess Sukhodhaya of Siam, widow of the late King Prajadhipok and aunt of the late (murdered) King Ananda Mahidol, was in Manhattan on a visit, looked forward to some shopping just as soon as the mourning was finished. Special interests: ice cream and nylons...
While Time Remains is an effort to assess the degree of that "unpreparedness" and an inquiry into U.S. relations with the rest of the world. For the most part, Correspondent Stowe writes in lumbering, low-gear journalese ("diabolical idealistic window-dressing to make cannon fodder out of the cream of their countries' youth," etc.), but certain of his assertions are perfectly plain. Among them: 1) the U.S. itself started the atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...
...fall like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...