Word: mixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freezing cookie dough. After hundreds of different experimental batches, Dottie finally hit upon the right formula, hobbled over on her crutches to Grocer Dale Smith and sold him a boxful. Grocer Smith was soon selling as many boxes as Dottie Ferguson could turn out. She invested in a larger mixer, then in a battery of mixers that crowded her kitchen and basement. But still she could not keep up with the pile of orders...
...front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried. "Your pants are open...
...Class '56 will be "at home" to girls from ten women's colleges at a mixer in the Union this evening...
During the dinner, there is little ceremony. Julian Coolidge, the House's first Master, who imported the High Table custom from Oxford, intended the Monday night dinners as a social mixer for the House staff and undergraduates. The few traditions and ceremonies that the Table does have were designed by Coolidge to ward off pompousness and keep the atmosphere easy and friendly. Thus, alert to the malaise that accompanies the combination of a heavy meal, a discourse, and a tuxedo, he expressly banished any after-dinner orations. And Elliott Perkins, the present Master, follows the old Arabic custom of taking...
...Schlockmeisters and giveaways. They are not so sure about another facet of the business known as the "payola." Originally, the payola was a simple expression of gratitude. If a TV comic used a brand name in a joke (e.g., "Your hair looks like you combed it with a Waring mixer"), he would be likely to receive a Waring mixer in the next mail. But Schlockmeisters are not always content to wait until a comic thinks up a joke on his own. To speed matters along, they may write up a few jokes themselves that give a free plug...