Word: buttermilk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midafternoon, with five Secret Servicemen as companions, he slipped away to a hideaway in a hotel at Excelsior Springs, 22 miles north of Kansas City. There he had a mineral bath, a rubdown, a sandwich and a glass of buttermilk. By 7 o'clock he was in bed. His aides, who were established in the eleventh-floor penthouse suite of Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, were gloomy; they had felt all along that election night would be like a wake. Harry Truman woke up several times during the night and telephoned to the Muehlebach. At about...
Barrels of ice water awaited the thirsty on the Louisiana State University campus. At L.S.U. stadium, where 10,000 assembled to watch the inaugural ceremonies, there was free food & drink for all-200,000 hot dogs, a quarter of a million buns, 8,000 gallons of buttermilk, a quarter of a million bottles of root beer, Coke and "red soda...
Earl did his best to prove a post-election brag: "We'll improve on everything Huey did." The entertainment went on & on. There was a baseball game, swimming exhibition and music by countless bands. There was also some unscheduled entertainment. Children dropped buttermilk cartons from the top of the stadium and one woman was conked by a falling whiskey bottle...
...promised, "I'm going to have an inaugural party for anybody who wants to come. When they arrive we'll just add another plate to the table, and tell them to come on in-we'll give them all the soda pop and hot dogs and buttermilk they want ... if I have to kill every hawg I can raise...
...humming little chain of three California papers and five radio stations), had a bright little idea for making the drones work better. She had recorded music piped in: loud and animated in the composing room, soft and restful in the city room. One sour newsman, after hearing out Ole Buttermilk Sky, said it didn't do a thing for his writing...