Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sick. Cried he, in his first white heat of disappointment, "this has hung crepe on the biggest thing in Louisiana." It was small wonder: 10,000 workmen were pounding ahead on his vast yard; $10,000,000 had already been spent. By September, the first ship was due to come off his "floating assembly line" (TIME, May 4), and early next year he was due to deliver one Liberty ship...
...apiece, a dozen crepe-de-chine-and-lace drawers, worth $18 to $25 each, a pair of silk bloomers worth $15 to $18, "one dozen most exquisitely embroidered satin step-ins" worth $18 to $40 apiece, other costly mentionables...
...Madame Berthelot, during World War I, had been one of the "tactful, well-bred," crepe-hung women sent by the solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted...
...their water in ten to 20 seconds. Steam rising rapidly from the food prevents oxidation, as when apples turn brown. Vacuums (or inert gases such as carbon dioxide) are sometimes used to keep air away. Tomatoes come off the drum like an endless sheet of red crepe paper, crumble into microscopic flakes which will store well for at least three years. Best products: tomatoes, potatoes, apples, bananas, peaches, peas, squash, pumpkin...
...black crepe dress, black low-heeled shoes, black silk stockings, and a pink hat, Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), who described herself as "an old baseball player," batted a bottle of champagne on the prow of the light cruiser Atlanta, sent her down the ways in Kearny, N.J. Same day the Navy launched a sister ship, the San Juan at Quincy, Mass...