Word: powdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stake-$100 Million. The bloodless Nicaraguan explosion had been set off by Arguello's reckless ultimatum to Somoza to get out of the country within 24 hours. Somoza was of a mind to take a powder. After all, he was due for an operation at Rochester's Mayo Clinic, and he was said to have a fat $20 million in the U.S. But he also had $100 million in land, cattle, railways, bananas and coffee in Nicaragua. He would trust that to no one. From Argüello he got an extension of time...
...Folks He Loved. By the time the ladies arrived at the Statler for luncheon they were a little more subdued. They had ridden around town for 3½ hours. They had made a bargain-basement attack on the Statler's powder rooms. They had somehow swept 25 non-Kunkel ladies along into the dining rooms with them, thereby complicating the seating arrangements and causing some bad tempers. But when Congressman Kunkel reappeared they immediately and happily sang, to the tune of Bell Bottom Trousers...
Though an avalanche that obliterated the prepared course caused a postponement of the contest from Saturday to Sunday, it "put a couple of feet of powder snow on the slope and thus improved racing conditions," Taylor asserted...
Evelyn stayed at the Blue Angel for her customary three years, began building a radio name with appearances on the Lanny Ross Show, the Chesterfield Supper Club, the Bourjois Powder Box Theater, et al. Last week, the buildup paying off big, she mused: "I sometimes wonder why I studied singing. I became such a huge success when I stopped using my voice...
...everything from motherhood to swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...