Word: creams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lure of higher wages to the cities, to become rank apprentices at a new trade. It has let draft boards pluck skilled and infinitely precious war workers from industry. It has let the Navy's busy recruiting trucks roam the nation, picking and choosing, skimming off the cream of American manpower with hardly a thought to national policy. Now the month of crisis is at hand...
...first sight of the first baby brought loud awkward delight to many a young veteran like American Volunteer Group Flyer John Hennesy, who first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes...
...middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through...
...cream of campus coaches has been skimmed by the armed forces...