Word: vanillaism
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Despite the preoccupations of its plot, this drama is as innocuous and sweet as vanilla ice-cream. June Walker plays the part of Sir Basil's U. S. representative with soft and flexible insouciance. Bred in Chicago, she made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...
...Lyles is a short, vanilla-colored gentleman whose serious cast of countenance belies his reputation as one of the most irresistible Negro stage comedians who ever slapped a softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first...
...whites of the eygs, beaten stiff and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream...
...granulated sugar and-one-half cup milk. "Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook until it thickens. "Add the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff, and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream...
...Cream. Manufacturers who produced 84,000,000 gallons of ice cream last year (three quarts for every person in the U. S.) reported to the Department of Commerce that more than half their customers demanded vanilla flavor. One-tenth would take chocolate, one-twelfth strawberry. The remaining customers took the various flavors put together by the dispensers. One-eighth ate brick cream, seven-eighths the more familiar bulk. Million a Day. Speyer & Co. with J. & W. Seligman & Co. bought 245,000 shares constituting control of Victor Talking Machine Co. from its President Eldridge R. Johnson a fortnight ago (TIME...