Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wait, don't forget dessert! Ice cream soup with apple-pie. Good use for the soup spoon...
...presidential office is without a doubt a mankiller, but there is no such thing as an indispensable man-in or out of the White House. Better that we should all skate around on the slippery ice of politics until 1960 than retain a man who knew all the rules where other men were concerned but considered himself sacrosanct when these rules applied to him. I am a Republican and I like and voted for Eisenhower. But I think Adams had all that has happened "coming to him," and I think Eisenhower made the ultimate mistake in not firing him pronto...
...drab cincture to its towers, menaced a thousand rubbish-strewn, treeless streets. Subway passengers broiled; Broadway theaters and side-street restaurants hung "Delightfully Air Conditioned" banners or closed for the season. The greenery-edged hem of the metropolis echoed to domestic sounds -the whir of lawnmowers, the jingling ice-cream-truck bells, the clink of beer glasses, shrieks of splashing children in backyard wading pools...
Manufacturers are already on the market with such items as Purple People Eater hats (with built-in horn), T shirts, buttons, dolls and ice cream. In Orlando, Fla. a campaign is directed at changing the name of a purple-and-silver train that comes through the town from West Coast Champion to The Purple People Eater. Record manufacturers are cranking out imitative disks as fast as they can make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka...
...been a longtime stage director): "Each year a new generation of Mammon families is educated for attendance at the Metropolitan, where the young lady learns to sit in a box with the cool expression of a rich heiress and look at the stage as if she were packed in ice...