Word: schraffts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue...
British-born Poet W. H. Auden, in a little prose flourish for Town & Country, admonished U.S. poets "to take topophilia [love of places] seriously. . . . Had I the talent . . . what lovely poems would I be writing now about Schrafft's Blue Plate Special, Stouffer's tea shop, the Brighton Beach line, the General Theological Seminary on Ninth Avenue at 21st Street...
...Broad Highway. Butter pats were served again at Schrafft's and Henrici's; cases against cigaret blackmarketers were dropped. Along the highways, in whatever cars they had, people were blowing out tires and bumping into each other again; the city traffic tie-ups were something awful. Other moral equivalents to war were the fall's football games-which drew record crowds-and a shooting season so trigger-happy that Colorado's game department recommended manslaughter laws for hunters...
...unfailing topic of conversation everywhere was the continued food scarcity. No one was starving, or even close to it. Yet makeshift meals were the order of the day. Even spaghetti was hard to get. In a Manhattan restaurant (Schrafft's) the dinner menu one night offered a choice of two vegetable plates...
Ingrid Bergman, passing through Manhattan on a war bond tour, said her next stop was Minnesota where "if I can't sell bonds in English. I'll sell them in Swedish." She divulged that she had dreamed for two and a half years of a Schrafft's hot fudge sundae, found they were no longer served because of the war. She planned to see Mae West's Catherine Was Great on Broadway, explained: "I want to see if there's anything I can learn from her. It may come in handy sometime...