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Word: butterscotch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Velvet Fog. Delicate Mel Tormé, known to his claque of feminine fans as the "Velvet Fog," is the boy with the butterscotch voice. At 21, Stylist Tormé attributes his intimate whispers to a second growth of tonsils and a solid knowledge of music (rare, in a crooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Languor, Curls & Tonsils | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...expert piece of sentiment called Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a young English actress, who looked rather like a goddess sculptured in butterscotch, made her brief screen debut, and without fair warning even to herself, stole the film. Though nobody clearly realized it at the time (four years ago), she also started something new in screen history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ideal Woman | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...hospital went 36 servicemen and War Department employes woozy from another poisoning, this time apparently from the butterscotch pie. Said W.R.A.'s Director Frank W. Hoover, unimpressed by talk of sabotage: "The place seems to be jinxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Pie | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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