Word: vanillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Margaret Sullavan, a young Virginia actress given the lead in Universal's most ambitious production of the season after two seasons of stock and two on the Manhattan stage (A Modern Virgin, Chrysalis), gives a fluent performance, the more remarkable because her Southern accent sounds neither negroid nor vanilla...
...Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow...
...Society could see such a picture of the operating room of the not-too-distant future while Columbia University's Professor Marston Taylor Bogert was explaining to them last week why synthetically perfumed anesthetics should be developed soon. Synthetic perfumes, said Professor Bogert, are steadily replacing natural scents. If vanilla perfume can be made from foul-smelling asafetida, why not a pleasant anesthetic...
...appearance) and four neurotic aviators she has picked up in Paris after the War. To convey the impression that they are just too world-weary, Author Saunders has arranged that they reply to all efforts at normal human communication with a stock set of irrelevancies: "I'll take vanilla," "It seemed a good idea at the time," and "We're off in a blizzard of horseradish...