Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of the most original and beautiful pages in Cantwell's biography are those devoted to Sophia Peabody, the shy Salem beauty with whom Hawthorne finally fell in love. She was an artist, one of three glowing Peabody girls, and had lived for almost two years on a sugar plantation in Cuba among the gallantries and luxuries of the old Spanish society...
...real café criollo give me every time the Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
...Ministry of Labor rated Alfred as "unemployable." Four times he had applied for a permit to open a pastry shop in Bedhampton, to which he had moved. Four times he had been refused. Opening of new pastry shops was strictly forbidden because of the shortage of fats, flour and sugar...
...curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby lunchroom for a belated breakfast (pork chop, pineapple pie, coffee with plenty of sugar). His wife went to eat later...
...Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...