Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Puddin'! Sugar Puddin'!" sang a husky feminine voice from the bedroom. A moment later Jane Barkley, a full-blown figure of a woman in scarlet housecoat, her hair in disarray, burst on to the side porch. "Look," she said, "I've got Mamie Eisenhower's bangs." Alben Barkley rose from his chair, tilted his wife's tousled head in his big hands, and smiled. "Well," he said, "you're prettier than...
...behind Tabet's mission to the U.S. Ambassador was squat and suave Ahmed Aboud Pasha, one of the three top figures in the Wafd, a multimillionaire who dabbles in sugar, fertilizer and shipping lines. Premier Hilaly was poking into some 140 tax-evasion charges against Aboud which the Wafd had quashed before Hilaly came to office...
...well-paid (about $4,000) job, it was also a chance to win what a trouper enjoys most: the cheers of an outsize audience. As is her custom before a performance, she went to bed at 6 the night before, spent the day in seclusion, took a sip of sugar water to ease the queasy feeling she still gets before going onstage. She sang carefully, in a tailored rather than flamboyant style, but the notes were true...
Kiss & Marry. When the traveling theater first came to the Bessarabian village of Holeneshti, it stirred a sensation. The little Jewish community had never seen a live actor. What was the theater? Did you eat it with a fork or a spoon? Did you sprinkle sugar or salt over it? Soon they found out. The wandering players had a wide repertory, all the way from Isabelle, Tear My Skirt to Dora, or the Rich Beggar, by Shakespeare, Revised and Improved by Albert Shchupak, Producer and Director...
...peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery, threw a prodigious right. It missed the target by a yard and Robinson sprawled on the canvas. While Maxim eyed him incredulously, the bell rang and Robinson was lugged to his corner by his handlers. Fifty seconds later, when the warning buzzer sounded, Robinson...