sweetmeats

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Born in 1945 on V-E day and gone for good just before their 21st birthday, the Sweetmeats came to mean something to just about everybody in America at one time or another.

From Time Magazine Archive

But just before the Sweetmeats are located, the nation's airwaves suddenly go dead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, pursuing the book's odd typographical construction, the eye takes in whole pages as if they were pictures, and the mind follows amiably as it develops a taste for the Sweetmeats.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our boat returned, and brought as presents a Roove of Fine Sugar and a Pot of Sweetmeats from the Master, who spoke a little English, and had formerly sailed with 'em.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Le Brun wrote a delectable poem on Sweetmeats; another writer on Mineral Waters, and a third on Printing.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac