Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, arched glass showcases and shelves provided hominy grits, black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
...back. Most spoke enthusiastically both of a big U.S. loan to the Spaniards and of full U.S. recognition of Franco's Fascist government. But last week three traveling members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee bluntly suggested that the U.S. should not be judged exclusively by the sweet talk of its traveling politicos...
...plan: "This is the road to tyranny . . . The people who are supporting this plan are either very dumb or they're simply dishonest." The whole plan would work out, cried Kline, to the disadvantage of the efficient farmer, "the guy who has tried to keep his hogs sweet and healthy and with a quirk in their tails...
...Sweet Song...
...prizes, $3,750 each, went to Fred Conway of St. Louis and France's Edouard Goerg, for pictures that most critics thought inferior. Goerg's Nativity with Birds was as stickily sweet as creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well...