Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight of Jimmy Roosevelt emerging from Tom Breneman's restaurant with a wide Rooseveltian grin on his face. Inside, Jimmy had just made a broadcast announcing that he would run for governor of California. His studio audience surged out behind him, still munching their free ice cream cones, and gathered around to gawk at the show. On the sidewalk a three-piece band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again, a tumbling team cavorted and square dancers twirled in the rosy glow of neon signs. In the midst of it all stood Jimmy, bald, tall and toothpick thin, bending...
There was, for instance, an Edam Cheese dish (it's in the book), stuffed with fish and fruit, a Chocolate Pie which comes out in separate layers. Then, there are simple things like a Mountain Soup; exotic dishes like Moghal Rice from India, Avocado Ice Cream from Hawaii, and a Ground-Nut Chop from West Africa that should be an experience for any American palate...
Zucchini "with Sour Cream Sauce. "This came originally, I think, from a hotel chef, changed a little as it was handed on to me by a friend, and I changed it further. I used it as a dish for a group in Philadelphia to which I belonged, and which went by a title I consider a triumph of anticlimax - La Societe Gastronomique de Bryn Mawr ..." French Hunter's Dinner. "Don't be afraid of the lard. In the South of France lard is used to absorb the odor of flowers for perfume, and in this dinner...
From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf...
...burly, good-natured Harry McDonald has plugged hard & long for a wider understanding of the securities markets by the public, has a wide understanding himself. He worked his way through the University of Chicago, but after two years in law school, dropped out in favor of selling-first ice cream, then securities. Later, he started Detroit's H. A. McDonald Creamery Co., built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman...