Word: creme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine-year-old dachshund, Clancy, filet of chicken topped off with a nip of Courvoisier. At night, before retiring to his own king-size bed, Clancy, in one of his 16 sweaters, trots over to the neighborhood pub, installs himself on a barstool and downs several vodka-and-creme de menthe nightcaps, considerately served up in a bowl. According to doting Owner Shanahan, Clancy is also "a great vocalizer and sings Happy Birthday to You all the way through." His principal charm, says Shanahan, is that "he has a broken tail and walks exactly like Jim Cagney...
...Manor), is aghast at such man-dog relationships. Says he, "I can't stand these fubsy people who tell you, 'Oh, my dog talks.' This is anthropomorphism gone mad. I can't stand this business of people keeping Pekingese on silk cushions and feeding them creme of chicken...
...Cramer of Harvard, who without a doubt has the best column title in the Ivies ("Creme de la Cramer"), is also lauded for the content of those columns...
...spoon" (usually half a gram) of cocaine costs between $25 and $50, and lasts an ordinary user just one evening. Heavy snorters spend several hundred a week. It is considered chic to inhale coke through a tightly rolled $100 bill. Silver straws from Tiffany's, intended for creme de menthe, are also used. Expensive vials and snuffboxes are popular too. Priest, a coke-dealing hero of Super Fly-a film some authorities blame for increasing the drug's popularity-snorts from a tiny coke spoon. These dainty scoops, sometimes made of gold or silver and worn as jewelry...
...bending close to inspect the chrome-plated carburetors, and his little brother in jeans and a Ski-Doo jacket peering in to see how high the speedometer goes. Down the aisle sits "Peaches and Kreme," a 1934 Ford coupe with a 1968 Corvette engine and a body painted "Campus Creme" on top and "Bronze Starflake" below (and a sign: DO NOT TOUCH THIS CAR UNLESS YOU ARE COMPLETELY NUDE!). Near by a crowd is gathering in front of the "Archie Bunker Hard Hat Hauler." The Hauler features a lunch-bucket gas tank, a chromed hard-hat roof, a forklift front...