Word: slushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film, at any rate, there is little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
...score of hobbies. Tall, lean, athletic, he sails quite a bit--"coastal cruising, that is"--and has from an early age. "I was almost born in Nantucket--missed it by three weeks. My family and I have always frequented the place." And when the wind blows cold and slush piles up along the coast, Labaree takes to the New England hills and skis ("with more enthusiasm than skill, I'm afraid...
When Emperor Nero received a shipment of mountain snow for his royal ice cream in a state of slush, he executed the general in charge. When Baltimore Milkman Jacob Fussell first began mass-producing the ancient delicacy in 1851, he started a U.S. industry that today leads all the world. But though Americans down about 3 billion quarts of ice cream annually, the U.S. Government-unlike Nero-has never had any control over the quality of the industry's product. Last week the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a code to regulate everything from quality "French...
...snow turned into slush, a hint of spring tinged the air. and romance was off again, on again. Collared in mink and hatted in velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis...
Bouncing off the B. & O.'s Diplomat in Washington one afternoon last week, twinkling Tourist Harry S. Truman volunteered that he had left his galoshes back in Independence, likely would not take his traditional morning walks along the capital's slush-puddled thoroughfares. Along with several score top-level Democrats, Truman was on hand for four days of meetings, lunches and fund-raisings that would kick off the Democrats' 1958 congressional campaign. As the opening whistle blew and the charges flew, it quickly became evident that Harry's galoshes were almost the only weapons that cocky...