Word: fanciest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...
Rising at dawn one brisk November morning, Joe York, a middle-aged dairy farmer in Scurry County, Tex., shoved aside his patched blue jeans and scuffed working boots and put on his fanciest rancher's garb. Until then, the biggest day in Joe York's life had been a calf-roping contest in which he won $150. Now he was after a far bigger prize...
Adolphe Menjou, known for decades as cinema's fanciest-plumed male, got ready for a cross-country lecture tour that will give the citizenry the low-down on Hollywood. Said he: "Despite the fact that Hollywood is covered by more than 400 reporters, no one really knows what the town is like...
Rise & Fall. Even the highpressure labor-attachè program had failed to get results. With special expense accounts and special credentials from President Peròn, the attaches (who were sent to 50 countries) were usually the fanciest spenders and most zealous propaganda-pushers at any Argentine embassy. It was a labor attache who thought up the stunt of having Eva Peròn send clothing to needy Washington schoolchildren. Scores of labor leaders were sent on paid-up junkets to see the New Argentina. But the drive to build up a Peronista hemispheric labor federation came to nothing...
...American plan, to stay at one of the bigger hotels in the Bermuda Hotel Assn. (president: Sir Howard Trott). This was less than Miami or Nassau charge, but far more than people paid in Bermuda's prewar horse & buggy days. Some of the fanciest price-boosting had occurred along Hamilton's staid Front and Queen Streets. Trimingham Bros, asked $24.24 for English flannel slacks that sold prewar...