Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heart of a City is a teacup version of The Wookey, with more sugar in it than tea. At times it is touching, at other times amusing (there is plenty of good old British ragging to tone down its heroics); but lacking imagination and any real eye for character, Playwright Storm can write only with a kind of mild, admiring tremulousness. She never really gets round to writing a play. Heart of a City is almost entirely atmosphere, and all its scenes are pretty much alike. Hence each scene is less effective than the one before it, and by curtain...
...prevent hoarding, no rationing book will be issued unless the applicant states that the family has no more than 2 Ib. of sugar on hand for each member (penalty for lying: up to ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 fine). To prevent profiteering, Price Boss Leon Henderson advised housewives to protest loudly if prices go much above 6? a Ib., threatened a retail-price ceiling if such protests are ignored...
...spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between...
...Sugar rationing in ¾-lb. units has refiners up a tree. Their machinery is designed for a 2-lb. package; none that will pack ¾ Ib. is available...