Word: dessert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porcelain. A Chinese vase in green, yellow, and aubergine (1665) to Frank Partridge of London for $3,100, the highest price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...
Another food products merger is in progress, headed by the Postum Cereal Co. Having absorbed the Jell-O Co. (dessert jellies) some weeks ago for 80 millions, and an Indiana cake-flour concern more recently, the Postum Co. last week acquired the California Packing Co. for 92 millions and announced that it was but beginning a series of operations which would make that figure and the Postum organazition itself mere drops in the bucket. Wall Street took seriously the thought that there would eventually be a combine between the Postum-made merger and National Food Products. Among companies mentioned...
...reverting to his rank as Rear Admiral. An attempt was made to get him the permanent rank of Admiral, but it failed through Congressional bickering. He was offered a Distinguished Service Medal, but wrote to Secretary Daniels declining it, saying that in many cases such honors were given without dessert, and in others not given when...
...fortnight ago Boris was reported the near victim of typhus bacilii interlarded by "a suspicious cook" in his dessert. Last April he returned the fire of assassins who intercepted his car near Sofia. Last December he made a "courting tour of Europe, in search of a bride." TIME chronicled these events (Sept. 14 and April...
Deprivation. Deprive a child of dessert or some food of which he is very fond if he does not eat the rest of his meal. Be firm but not cross. If you decide to do a thing, do not change your mind, no matter how much the child teases. (Children soon discover that it is possible to make you change your mind...