Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrewd, tough Democrat who has kept his fences well mended during his six years in the Senate. Even so, Clements was leaving nothing to chance. He campaigned 18 hours a day last week, allowed himself only two daily luxuries: a hot bath in the afternoon, a quart of ice cream at night (he shuns bourbon when on campaign duty). Clements' campaign technique: magnolias and corn ("Now I understand why Kentucky is known far and wide for its lovely, gracious ladies. I hope you will not think me forward for speaking to you. I'm Earle Clements...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
Afterward, Coach Michelosen and his assistants could find some small satisfaction in their narrow escape. Now the Panthers would surely get down to work: their opening game had been less a victory than a bucket of ice water in the face...
...World Series is just another set of numbers in the record book, the Dodgers will have time to muse on their unlovely, late-season staggers. But long after they have forgotten the men left on base, the muffed bunts, all the flubbed chances to put a close game on ice, they will remember Newk on the 19th. This was the kind of performance that makes legend-the legend of one man seemingly determined to do it all by himself...
...which she volunteered a friend's suggestion for her tombstone ("She did it the hard way"), while Husband Gary Merrill suggested that if Bette had not become an actress she would have been president of Lord & Taylor. Best bit: Bette reading from Robert Frost's Fire and Ice ("I hold with those who favor fire...