Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phalanx of photographers and reporters. When Christine appeared, a woman in the crowd turned to her little girl and said: "Look, Ruthie. She used to be a man" wrote the News with high disdain: "Ruthie stared popeyed. All she needed was a bag of peanuts and a bottle of soda...
...assembled reporters could have done with some peanuts and soda themselves. No sideshow mermaid ever got closer scrutiny than Christine. Her technique with high heels, agreed the tabloids, was poor. "If you shut your eyes when she spoke, you would have thought a man was talking," said the News. To Daily Mirror reporters her voice was "a lilting, feminine soprano" dropping to "a husky, masculine contralto" as she grew tired. All in all, the sight of Christine in the flesh took some of the anticipatory gleam out of the newsmen's eyes. "Her legs, what could be seen...
...Remedy. Swiss-born Jacob Schweppe first began making soda water in his Bristol chemist's shop in 1794. Quinine water, which Schweppes concocted in the 1860s, so appealed to British taste that by 1903 Schweppes had factories all over the empire. World War II cut off sugar supplies and stopped production; when the factories started up again in 1948, sugar rationing kept sales flat...
Last July one Floyd McFall and his wife Sylvia used their savings to open a little restaurant and soda fountain between the post office and the bank. They were ignored; almost everyone who wanted a snack away from their own kitchens went, as always, to the lunch counter in the J. F. Hathaway Market & Grocery across the street. Morose, 58-year-old McFall, an ex-house painter who had lived his whole life in the town of Adrian, only twelve miles away, was considered a stranger...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...