Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sugar...
...Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...
...dentists' guesses: 1) Northerners eat more sugar; 2) the water in Texas (and neighboring states), unlike the North's, is rich in fluorine, which is believed to prevent cavities...
...Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy-colored canvas of four weird, grief-crazed creatures with a dead child...
...What was behind the new purge? Last week the Soviet Government tripled the price of rationed food. (Little food in Russia is unrationed.) Black bread went up from 3.8? to 12.9?* a pound, white bread 10.6? to 30.3?, butter 90.8? to $2.27, sugar 18.9? to 60.6?, meat...