Word: vanillaism
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These are of course isolated instances; but the fact remains that there is little consideration for Central Kitcheners. Vanilla is a popular flavor; but its constant repetition is just the "bland leading the bland," and macaroni with lemon meringue pie is--to phrase it softly--a highly original combination...
...bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet of "caviar espresso, codfish benedict, vanilla mousse hollandaise," that prompted one hotel guest to remark, aptly: "I think he may be a Martian...
...bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs, vanilla and sugar, drives his 1957 white Oldsmobile convertible to the Washington studio, where he runs through the songs for his show. To Dean, country music is a happy thing, and keeps him practicing the advice he gave when he signed off last week: "Grin once in a while...
...Senate Republican Policy Committee, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges casually asked President Eisenhower if he would like to lunch with the committee some day on Capitol Hill. "Sure-today," said Ike briskly, leaving Styles Bridges to rummage up sirloin steaks, peach-and-cottage-cheese salad, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, Jell-O and coffee for 40 guests, purring that a Republican President had not lunched informally with Republican Senators on the Hill like this for more than 25 years. Obviously the President had something important on his mind, thought the Senators, and the President had. Ike was sick...
...demonstrators heaved plates of asparagus and vanilla pudding at each other and the walls until police closed food lines and cleared the dining halls. Outside, the rioters rocked cars and threw snowballs at the police...