Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score of 15 hits in 15 throws. Founded mainly with Joseph Burnett's money (vanilla, Deerfoot Farms), St. Mark's in the words of the school prayer, has had "rich gifts bestowed upon it, and its courts thronged with youth." Deer-foot Farms are located in Southborough, and when the wind is in the right quarter Third Formers, whose dormitory faces East, are made...
Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers. Flushing, N.Y., makes citronella; to Java's detriment. Newark, N. J., makes vanillin against vanilla from Seychelle, Mexico and Reunion.† New Jersey ivroid harms African ivory, its bakelite, Central American mahogany. Delaware makes amber (East Prussian commodity) substitute...
...vanillin lacks vanilla's fine bouquet. The two are sold mixed for bakers and housewives...
Despite the preoccupations of its plot, this drama is as innocuous and sweet as vanilla ice-cream. June Walker plays the part of Sir Basil's U. S. representative with soft and flexible insouciance. Bred in Chicago, she made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...
...Lyles is a short, vanilla-colored gentleman whose serious cast of countenance belies his reputation as one of the most irresistible Negro stage comedians who ever slapped a softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs. Miller & Lyles in Shuffle Along, Runnin Wild, George White's Scandals, Rang Tang, and other reviews, would be surprised to know that diminutive Aubrey Lyles and tall Flournoy D. Miller (nephew of Bishop Evans Tyree of the African Methodist Church) were undergraduates at Fisk University when they got their first...