Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around this development Harold Hales decreed that his trophy should be held by each consecutive winner for three months. The Italian Line displayed the $4,000 mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts as the ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London...
...sense of taste is a chemical reaction which occurs in the minute tulip-shaped clusters of cells scattered thinly and irregularly over the tongue. There are a few "taste buds" elsewhere in the mouth, some even on the tonsils. Each bud distinguishes one of four tastes: sour, sweet, bitter, salt. Babies are born fully outfitted with taste buds-about...
...Alabama Aces are twelve colored musicians, formerly with the Little Harlem Night Club, whose feature is "Sweet Sue," played on Coca Cola battles...
Forty-five years ago when Winifred Sweet was a slim, pretty young woman with red hair and blue eyes, the Examiner assigned her to a children's playground party. There she met a "tall, handsome, well-groomed young man" who helped her quiet a howling moppet. Back in the office she met the tall young man again, answered brusquely when he asked: "What became of the Bull of Bashan?" She then learned that the tall young man was her boss, William Randolph Hearst, who had lately bought "that new paper on Montgomery Street." Since then she has never been...
...Annie Laurie" was born in Wisconsin, daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. Educated at swank finishing schools, she went on the stage, quit when she was handed a burlesque role. On the strength of several letters she had had printed in the Chicago Tribune, she got a job there, held it a week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things...