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Word: sugaring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme of the production is that of the chorus girl who is fighting the efforts of her sugar-daddy's family to keep him confined to a sanatorium. In her battle to free him she is aided by two newspapermen. The musical is a satire on these subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ASSORTED NUTS" TITLE OF NEW PUDDING SHOW | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

...months ago even that effort was made easy. On the market appeared Clapp's Rennet Desserts in six flavors (vanilla, chocolate, lemon, orange, raspberry, maple). Price: 15? a package. Chief ingredients: sugar, calcium, salt, skim milk and rennet (an enzyme from a calf's fourth stomach). Children took to the new desserts, did not mistake them for spinach. Last week, because of its booming sales, Clapp broke ground for a new $250,000 addition to its model Rochester plant-a 50% increase in floor space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOODS: Tin Can Mother | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Americans have an unholy passion for quizzes, puzzles, and question-answer games. Information Please and the Time current affairs tests are as much a part of American life as Charlic McCarthy and carter's Little Liver Pills. Even college students with examination jitters will tolerate quizzes if they are sugar-coated and the answers don't have to be written in bluebooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFORMATION PLEASE | 3/13/1940 | See Source »

Grey and murky dawned Monday, March 4, in Washington, seventh anniversary of the New Deal-seven years since the miserable, slushy day he rode, face grave, to the Inauguration ceremonies beside haggard Herbert Hoover. In mufti-no sugar-scoop coat-trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Year VIII | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...with 2,400,000 tons of potatoes, Great Britain's food-producing capacity is actually above 1914 in some respects. Farthest off are oats and barley. Wheat is up 3%. Number of cattle and pigs is up by more than 4,000,000 head. Britain now has sugar beets in 345,000 acres, against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Half-Year Mark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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