Word: frostings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masque of Mercy by Robert Frost It is several years since The Short War, when the H-bombs knocked the world to chaos. Mankind has by now figured out how to prevent war and even to outwit death; that is, The Company has figured it out. With its globe-circling arm of Underwriters, Actuaries, Claim Adjusters, Regional Directors and Expediters, The Company has figured out almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except...
...Most authorities, e.g., the U.S. Trotting Association and Blood-Horse, doubt that standardbreds are more populous than thoroughbreds. But for a well-bred example of Reader Koch's favorite breed, the three-year-old trotter and Hambletonian Winner Scott Frost...
COFFEE PRICES, which have bounced up and down for two years, will go up again. Frost damage to Brazilian crops plus uncertainty about dollar-cruzeiro exchange rates pushed New York wholesale prices up 3? a lb.; the jump will soon be passed on, thus pushing up prices on such popular brands as Maxwell House and Chase & Sanborn from an average 95? to as much...
...resulting flurry of indignation included both factions. Wrote Layman Alan Frost of Folkestone: "Such a view can only be based on the presumption that England is still a Christian country . . . Is it not time [to see] that England is pagan, and that missionary methods are the only ones which can be used?" A Lancashire correspondent had a pointed argument for the other side: "St. Augustine told Bishop Julian that if he refused to baptize children the men would spit in his face and the women would throw their sandals at his head. Take note that women are wearing sandals again...
...Goshen, N.Y., in harness racing's Kentucky Derby, Scott Frost, a three-year-old California bay colt, took the $85,000 Hambletonian. Time for final heat: 2 min. 3/5 sec., only 3/5 sec. slower than the record set by the winner's sire, Hoot...