Word: creme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening, Picasso dines at the same little restaurant on the same pasty food, will then take a cafe-creme at the Cafe de Flore, almost always with the same group. His wit, which has made him feared by sycophants, is famous and often malicious. Examples: (of a young girl artist) "Her mother drinks, her father drinks, and it is she who has the red nose"; (of James Joyce) "an obscur whom everyone can understand." Picasso's critics do not like the way he pretends that nothing he says can have any really damaging effect. They point to this...
...secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself in the company of a bunch of U. S. millionaires aboard a trans-atlantic liner. Feeling out of things because they were talking nothing but big money, he ordered 365 glasses of creme de menthe, whereat the millionaires treated him as one of them. Firsthand, the funniest thing he remembers is when the left-wing press said his Tom Paine should have been written by "a competent Marxist." In a lame conclusion he tells in detail how he wrote each of his biographies...
...spend the next day in bed and there is all that time you managed to save. Bull-sessions don't educate you at all, either. And sometimes you can make yourself sick enough smoking cigarettes to end up at the Infirmary. The Infirmary, of course, is the creme de la creme, and the pinnacle aspiration of the man who wants to spend his Reading Period wisely. There you can get chocolate milks and orange juice on order, you are surrounded by easy reading like the June "Atlantic" and a complete file of the "Saturday Evening Post," and the lights...
...wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child clinging to his chin...
Ruddy, elderly, grey-haired Lawyer Baldwin, who is a past president of the National Publishers Association, onetime vice president of McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and longtime personal counsel to the late Charles Francis Murphy, Tammany boss, was not content to leave his Creme de Menthe jingle as his sole recorded effort, though he says: "No man likes to be known as a poet." He sought and obtained permission to recite to the inquisitorial committee another verse...