Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the boy home with him, Mayor Baker promised to send him $50 per year. Not to be outdone by this Portlandish gesture, Henri Prince, representing New York's Mayor Walker, proclaimed adoption of the eight-year-old cornetist in the same band. Then all the mayors sang "Sweet Adeline." A portentous thunderstorm marked the night arrival of the mayors in Paris. They were met by Count jean de Castel-lane, president of the Municipal Council, who invited them to luncheon next day at the Hotel de Ville "in behalf of the Town of Paris." Quipped irrepressible Mayor Baker...
Wromen presented at the first two Royal Courts of the London Season (the last two will be on the nights of June 9 & 10) totaled over 400. As usual the largest group of "foreigners" were U. S. women, 20 of them. But outstanding in the whole assemblage was sweet-seventeenish Miss Virginia Dawes, just home from boarding school. She had appendicitis...
Crazy Quilt is the sequel to Sweet & Low, presented earlier this season by famed Fannie Brice and her husband Billy Rose (TIME, Dec. 1). It is a great deal sweeter and not so low as its predecessor. Supporting Miss Brice in the fun-making are Phil Baker and his accordion, Ted Healy and his grotesque ''stooges" (comic assistants). There are also: Fannie's nimble-footed brother Lew, the excellent ballroom dancers Gomez & Winona, a pretty little girl named Ethel Norris who sings and dances, good music by Harry Warren. For once, a Jewish production has acquired...
...expanding its business of making orange juice in Florida, quick-freezing it, shipping it north to be delivered with the morning's milk. The National laboratories, headed by vitamin-expert Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum (TIME, April 6), were experimenting with two new products; soft curd milk and sweet acidophilus. More important, National was pressing, on two fronts, its bold expansion policy. For though people may weep during Depression, still they must eat and drink and National Dairy is marching steadily...
...gain ground, for, being forewarned, she should be forearmed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will disperse all those shadows. It goes to the very root of all female complaints, renews the waning vitality, and invigorates the entire system. . . . 'Reach for a vegetable instead of a sweet...