Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...
...full-page trade-paper ads, TV Producer Jack (Bold Journey) Douglas talked back to his critics-and his words had the authority of success. Last week he announced details of the sale of 'his new TV series, Sweet Success, to the Independent Television Corp. for international syndication. Douglas has also peddled enough other new shows to land enough business for his production company (estimated net worth: $2,000,000) to keep it busy for four years. The Douglas operating formula, E+E=$$$ (education+ entertainment = dollars), was paying off, and if the Douglas critics did not like it, they could...
Hollywood would not look twice at India's Lata Mangeshkar. Tin-Pan Alley might cover its ears. But last week plain little Lata, her hair braided in a pigtail, drove to one of Bombay's biggest movie studios, was ushered up to a mike, and the sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India...
...Kraft preserves and jellies ("It leaves nothing to be desired in an advertisement. I only want some of those [as the ad says] 'peaches you see here, grown sweet and tender in the long summer sun, quick-cooked in Kraft's very special...
...Maxims of La Rochefoucauld, translated by Louis Kronenberger. The 17th century wit, courtier, soldier and cynic pressed the tart juices of aphorism out of the sweet and sour grapes of his varied social experience...