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...baking dish, place a layer of rolled cracker crumbs, moisten well with a medium cream sauce. Add a layer of grated American cheese, a layer of grated pimentos and a layer of grated hard-boiled eggs. Repeat layers, top with buttered crumbs. Bake until pudding is heated thoroughly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Spirit of '52 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...women's home companions is 27-year-old Florence Pritchett, a bejeweled, baritone-voiced ex-model who takes the air as "Barbara Welles." Flossy's voice is husky, refined and thrillingly intimate as she says: ". . . Tear crisp green leaves of four-times-washed spinach into appetizing pieces. Moisten with French dressing and toss together in salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Personality | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...worst weaknesses. He has loosened his loose, gabby prose until it is as flabby as Nesselrode custard. His hero, Private Wesley Jackson, is a writer-of the Saroyan persuasion. He even has the Army job Saroyan had: writing scenarios for training and documentary films. And just to moisten the damp resemblance, Saroyan makes him a precocious Californian: Wesley is published in the New Republic when he is only 18-but it never goes to his head. Nothing does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The World's Too Lovely | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Bull's-Eye | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...While these experimental studies were in progress," the doctors were called on to treat severe back and chest burns of a 15-year-old girl. They gently bathed her in soap and water, but gave her no tannic acid, permitted only occasional mouthfuls of water to moisten her throat, and placed her in an oxygen tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood & Water | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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