Word: cream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy week for the indefatigable young Shah of Iran. In Fort Knox, Ky., he played his first slot machine, hit a $10 jackpot which didn't pay off. In Phoenix, Ariz., he bulldogged a steer, rode a palomino named Cream of Wheat Jr., had his first date (dinner and a square dance) since his arrival with an American girl: willowy blonde Northwestern Graduate Joanne Frakes, 23, who later confessed that she had trouble remembering he was a King. "He only acted kingly a couple of times," she said, "mostly he was just like any other nice...
Partly Whipped Cream. Most West Germans live only about half as well as they did in 1936; most refugees live half as well as the West Germans. Old residents and refugees alike are incited by the spectacle of a few rich postwar profiteers who careen about the countryside in fine American cars and gorge on expensive delicacies. Said one German publisher as he watched a group of such well-fed Burger in a garish Frankfurt cafe: "This country is partly a whipped-cream paradise, but mostly a poor farm...
...blast on a 12th Century hunting horn. Last week, as Washington's National Gallery admitted ordinary visitors to its showing of the family treasures of Austria's Habsburgs, there were plenty of such rich and marvelous knickknacks for folks to goggle at. including jeweled goblets, an emerald cream jar, embossed parade armor, even a nine-lb. golden salt cellar wrought by Benvenuto Cellini. But the finest treasures of all in the $80,000,000 loan exhibition had been put together with only a few dollars worth of paint and canvas. Among them were seven Tintorettos, twelve Titians, nine...
...Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000), was finally hospitalized on a benefit fund...
...brothers, Prince Oscar Bernadotte, 90, and Prince Carl, 88, threw caution to the winds at a birthday party for Oscar in Stockholm's Drottningholm Castle. Abandoning their rigid spartan diet, they gorged themselves on a few favorite dishes of their youth: lobster American, goose liver, partridge, champagne, ice cream...