Word: creaming
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...Eden Phillpotts had not named his subsequent comedy "Devonshire Cream", "The Wife Hunter", which opened Monday night at the Wilbur Theatre, might more appropriately have been entitled "The Devonshire Hunt", or something of the sort. Certainly "The Wife Hunter" is far more applicable to a Broadway bedroom farce than to a gentle comedy of southern England. Even the old title, "The Farmer's Wife", though a trifle misleading, is better than the one finally selected, which induces a most unwarranted preconception of Mr. Charles Coburn in the role of a dashing and sophisticated Lothario...
...Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry machines such as electric ice cream freezer and an automatic potato peeler...
...word--of the Freshman Halls, the food was generally prepared in a very poor fashion. Save for a few standard dishes the articles on the so-called menus were uniformly badly cooked. I do not mean to say that they were unwholesome though memory of certain cream puffs still lurks in my mind and in those of others as well. The food was probably both wholesome and nourishing, but youth has the outrageous habit of wishing its food to be palatable also, and Freshman Hall food certainly is not palatable...
...basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...precise and vigorous face. He is also one of those men on whose clear and fine skin soap and water seem to produce a sheen or a glow, such as the manufacturers of a boot polish assure the world is a pedal consequence of using their particular cream. He stands very upright and square-shouldered, with a rather commanding tilt to his head, and a look in his eyes, when he is opposed, which is quick with challenge...