Word: peppermint
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...full coverage, Civil Defense Chairman Ernest Woolsey announced his own plans for alerting everyone by 1) sending up a 7,000-ft. column of red smoke, 2) exploding an aerial fireworks bomb, 3) releasing helium-filled balloons, and 4) spraying Council Bluffs with a mixture of powdered sugar and peppermint, so that the warning could be both smelled and tasted...
...World Is Waiting for the Sunrise were audible.* On the street outside the hotel, quartets with such names as the Agriculturalists (who dress in overalls, bandannas, straw hats) from Wisconsin, or the Clef Chefs (chef's aprons and hats) from Indiana, gathered at a street lamp decorated with peppermint-stick paper and gave out with Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie or Let the Rest of the World...
...Barn 20, two sets of Vanderbilt horses had already returned from workouts. They were led up a neat row of peppermint-striped water pails. At each pail, a groom swabbed down a horse with a sponge of warm water, then covered him with a bright "cooler" (blanket). Then the "hot walkers" took over, for the lowly but necessary job of walking the work-hot horses for 30 minutes or an hour, until they have been gradually watered and cooled. For the Dancer, the day was just beginning...
...popularity race, sponsored by the Adams House Food Committee, coffee has the best chance of snatching a last minute victory. Pistachio, frozen pudding and peppermint stick are far in the rear...
Filene's is tired of just plain old Christmas--it was dead; needed jazzing up. So Filene's is having a circus. Clowns handle Santa's overflow. Santa wears a green hat, and a young thing in a peppermint skirt, who could win Mrs. Santa an infidelity suit in any state, toys with it and purrs, "Christmas is sweet...