Word: creme
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...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...
...Lawyer Baldwin's file the committee's investigators unearthed a copy of a letter to the wife of Powerman Phillips, relating that as a boat gift Mr. Baldwin had sent her husband a bottle of Creme de Menthe with this jingle...
...drown your sorrows in Creme de Menthe. Promptly Judge Mack offered the investigating committee another candidate as its "poet laureate," reading from the works of their rate engineer, Robert C. Gilles: I'm rate engineer for the Mack Committee...
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...
Bartender Tarling's Silver: ½ gin, ¼creme a la banane, ¼ fresh cream...