Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer promised Thomas J. White and Ray Barbre a hen's egg for every rat they killed on his farm. When they had shot 70 the farmer begged to be released from the bargain because he needed the rest of his eggs for his family, offered to substitute sweet potatoes. White and Barbre shot 30 more rats...
...Golden Dawn" is not piquant, it is sweet: therefore it cloys, not appetizes.* It may be all very well as a punch, or a liqueur, but never as a cocktail. The popularity of the Dry Martini places it without any doubt in the minds of the majority as the "World's Finest." Let the drinker beware of the European barman-he likes to skimp on his liquors and trust to melted ice to fill the glasses: tell him "pas trap glacé" (not too much ice) or, jocularly, "pas trap mouillé" (not too wet). GRAFTON D. DORSEY
...Alexander ("Little Napoleon") Simpson, Democratic nominee for the Senate, caustically charging his Republican opponent, Dwight Whitney Morrow, with responsibility for hard times and unemployment. He compared Mr. Morrow to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, declared the Morrow butler perfumes the Morrow soupspoon. Nominee Morrow meets these attacks with such sweet reasonableness as: "It's not at all unnatural for the political party out of power to blame bad times on the political party in power. Conversely it is the habit of the party in power during a period of prosperity to take credit for good times whether they have...
...Sweet Chariot. The first act of this play was unmistakably suggested by the life of Marcus Garvey, discredited Negro leader, dreamer of black glories in Africa for himself and his U. S. following (TIME, Jan. 11, 1923; Feb. 16, 1925)- The remainder is purely fictional. Marius Harvey (Frank Wilson) and his associates have planned a Back-to-Africa movement for Negroes, chartered boats, expecting to make money on the scheme. But when Marius Harvey assembles his clients in a hall to tell his plans, his eloquence carries him away, he becomes spiritually involved in the mission of leading his people...
Girl Crazy. The pleasantest interlude in Girl Crazy, a conspicuously pleasant show, is furnished by a quartet of young men sufficiently resembling cowboys who amble across the stage three times in the first act and sing a sweet, lazy little song called "Bidin' My Time (That's the Kind of Guy I'm)." The attraction also contains the best music George & Ira Gershwin have written since Oh, Kay!, an outstandingly comely chorus, talented and virginal...