Word: creampuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the high-living union bosses spotlighted by the McClellan committee last summer was the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' creampuff-plump President James G. Cross, who had spent union dough lavishly for personal expenses, including upkeep of a girl friend several times convicted as a tart. After studying the testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa...
...Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list of banned books. Enterprising Publisher Ian Ballantine quickly had publicity-prone Shepherd ghostwrite such a book (with Fantasy-Fiction Writer Theodore Sturgeon). Some 30 days later they served up an 18th century creampuff (" 'Gadzooks,' quoth I, 'but here's a saucy bawd!' ") dedicated to night people...
...dealer parlance, a "creampuff" is a really good used car; a "dog" is just that...
Paris has exported a new chanteuse. She calls herself Patachou (rhymes with not-a-shoe), because the word is French for creampuff dough and she used to run a pastry shop in Montmartre. After two highly successful months at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and a record released by Columbia, Patachou is currently wowing them at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove. Her fans claim she is the biggest thing that happened in France since Mistinguette wore pigtails. What is so special about this ex-pastrycook? Part of the answer lies with her predecessors...