Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence. At 4:30 p.m. next day the visitors began arriving, passing through the front porch and the tile-floored vestibule, over the well-worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went on. It was one of the biggest nights in Independence since 1834, when town roughs burned down nearly...
...lived off fish, wild geese, snipe and ptarmigan-when they could get them. They spent whole days in icy water holes, waiting for the wary game. Once Bud shot a moose, but Connie never achieved his ambition for her. Friendly natives gave them an occasional bite of "Eskimo ice cream" (blueberries, snow, and seal oil). Sometimes they had so little to eat that they lost all desire for food and meandered down the river "dizzier than sick cats," sipping hot tea in the driving rain...
Chicken and Ice Cream. In a battle like Saipan, where casualties are heavy, hospital ships cannot evacuate more than 20 or 30% of the wounded. The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship...
...surgical equipment are as good as in the best U.S. hospitals. But to the marine or soldier arriving from the battlefield's filth, the most wonderful thing about the Solace is the food. The night I was there supper was chicken a la king and strawberry ice cream...
...Milk-Shake. Early Woollcott letters are fraught with characteristic Woollcott appetite and enthusiasm. "My dear Smyser, Your charming letter received. . . . We enjoyed our straw-ride very much. I ate a bag of candy, a bag of peanuts, 2 bars of popcorn, a glass of Huyler's ice-cream soda, a chocolate Milk-Shake. . . . I have played over 300 games of croquet. . . . I have just finished the fourth of seven pincushions I am emboidering (don't consider spelling). . . . It is sweet to be remembered...