Word: vanillaism
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...short, "There's No Place Like Rome" lived up to its title and had us almost expelled by the management, high points being young hopeful Flavius calling for a vanilla popsicle, Roman gladiators rowing back from conquering Gaul in approved crew fashion, and man-eating lions charmed to rest by a jazz band wearing armor...
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Sirs: . . . I have often wondered why a city like Chicago cannot have a good morning paper. The morning paper reader must choose between Hearst or McCormick, in which case I'll take vanilla...
Other reductions were on cigaret paper, corsets, canned mushrooms, lace, perfumes, vanilla beans, feather dusters, candied chestnuts, Roquefort cheese, jewelry. Last year $4,270 of the $4,275 worth of maraschino cherries imported by the U. S. came from France. On these Secretary Hull sliced the duty...
...spare time shooting pool or picking out popular tunes on a piano, prefers Y.M.C.A.'s to hotels, and, as a souvenir of an adolescence spent in the roughest company in the toughest mining towns of the Southwest, has apparently acquired no more vicious taste than a fondness for vanilla milkshakes. After last week's fight, his first in defense of the title he won from Bob Olin last autumn, Lewis refreshed himself at a soda fountain, retired to his training camp to consider offers for fights in Paris, London, Sydney...