Word: creaming
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...prominent alumnus and former Lampoon editor yesterday expressed the general feeling of pity for the former cream of the college comics when he said, "It's too damn bad Lampy had to make such a botch of its first attempt to be socially conscious. The boys are young and inexperienced and should have known better than to try to compete with the Progressive...
...Navy-conferred on him by a grateful President. After nearly seven years of checking up on Mr. Roosevelt's health, Admiral Mclntire last week told the President he could let himself go. This meant that Mr. Roosevelt could have that second dish of ice cream he often craves...
...much for the sake of clean living as for better sculling." He drinks no liquor, tea or coffee, never smokes, does not play cards, slot machines, or the horses, swears only "when the occasion demands." The word necking makes him blush. He is mighty sweet on ice cream, and-though jealousy for his amateur standing has kept this a secret-eats Wheaties for breakfast...
Biggest was the news of the appointment of Myron Taylor to the Vatican (see p. 7). But behind the old cream-colored swinging doors of the State Department, Cordell Hull, 47th U. S. Secretary of State, his aides and under secretaries, carried through the routine steps according to the great tradition of their great and second-rate predecessors...
...used German and English words in the same sentence, had not yet separated them into two systems. Unexplained were her choices between German and English words for the same thing: she preferred ice cream to Eiskrem, bathe to baden, flower to Blumen, cake to Kuchen. But she said bitte instead of please, Bett instead of bed, da instead of there, mehr instead of more...