Word: glace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complete works at ten-month intervals. Written by Colette when she was 22 and published in 1900, Claudine at School was an instant and scandalous success. It went through innumerable editions and became so much a byword that manufacturers flooded Paris with a Lotion Claudine, a Chapeau Claudine, a Glace-Claudine and a Parfum de Claudine. Though lacking some of the rueful insight of Colette's later novels, the book remains a fresh and impressive piece of work, providing wit. penetrating observation, and a tolerable road map to the devious paths of a young girl's thinking. Most...
National out of some unproductive old lines. One such was the White Rock Corp., another was Italian Swiss Colony Wine Co. (TIME, April 27); a third was Henry H. Shufeldt & Co., which processed glace fruits as well as maraschino cherries and olives for dunking in National's liquor. Bierwirth sold them and all the rest, realizing $3,000,000 over their book value...