Word: vanilla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
...this regime, Charlie is shipped to a concentration camp, from which he escapes in stormtroopers' uniform, is mistaken for the Furor. With the real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room...
From sulphite liquor, in the course of a decade, Chemist Howard and his helpers drew a reddish-brown goo: lignin. From lignin they extracted vanillin (synthetic vanilla), now used for flavoring by many big sweets and ice cream manufacturers; Maratan, a chemical for tanning hides; T. D. A., a chemical for improving the quality of cement. Faster than dizzy Marathon officials could find markets for them, Guy Howard turned out new byproducts...
Aided and abbetted by his manager, Harold F. Lubehansky '41 who fanned him with a knapkin between rounds, Peabody judiciously alternated chocolate and vanilla as he set an all-time high. He ate a healthy dinner first...
...Harvard University, Freshman David ("Kentucky") Mitchell topped off his dinner with 18 successive helpings of ice cream, (twelve strawberry, six vanilla), next morning went out and won a crosscountry running trial. Said he: "It was nothing. I just kept on eating." Former record at the Harvard Union (clubhouse) was eleven ice creams...