After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the... rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn't buy vanilla ice cream. Except on... July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns wh...ich he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She has been man's slave. He has been educated at her expense. If he bought the ice cream, she was expected to pay for all his lux...uries in reduced wages. She has done the drudgery and borne the insults of those who wronged her, assuming to be her protector.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream Between us, milk-white mistress, I would swim... To you, to show to both my love's extreme, Leander-like,--yea! dive from brim to brim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off and ...on for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »