Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valley Stream...
Have a Tangerine? Late one afternoon last week, a steady stream of would-be De Sapio visitors poured into the cramped offices of the Democratic state headquarters, on the second floor of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. Campaign photographs of Averell Harriman were plastered everywhere. A picture of Harry Truman, in pastel shades, managed to make the wall of the main reception room. Franklin Roosevelt (senior) and Alben W. Barkley were relegated to the hall. Adlai Stevenson was stuck away in another room...
...always seemed to be April in Paris. Last week Ernest Hemingway was a long way from Paris and a long way from April. He was 55, but he looked older. He cruised in a black and green fishing boat off the coast of Cuba, near where the Gulf Stream draws a dark line on the seascape. The grey-white hair escaping from beneath a visored cap was unkempt, and the Caribbean glare induced a sea-squint in his brown, curious eyes set behind steel-rimmed spectacles. Most of his ruddy face was retired behind a clipped, white, patriarchal beard that...
...National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
...what gives the Cook Book its special charm is the stream of Alice's prattle, in which the recipes appear like floating islands, in no particular order. Her own recipe for striped bass, for instance, was worked out when she made lunch for Artist Pablo Picasso. He "exclaimed at its beauty" and modestly protested that it should have been created in honor of Matisse instead. In Palma de Mallorca, a French cook almost started a riot in the market place by showing Alice how to smother pigeons (the cook said it made them fuller and tastier). The information came...