Word: beane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gore, A Entry, A. F. Callahan '28; B Entry, F. H. Eldridge '28; C Entry, W. B. Jones '28; D Entry, G. W. Bean 28; E Entry, R. M. Bennett...
...Judgment has arrived. The bean lies cold and stiff in the ice-box, the cake is smoking on the board. And the ghosts of Miles Standish, John Alden, and Governor Winthrop collect in the corner and tell each other that it never could have happened...
Cake could never have formed the sinews that waged Boston's wars and built her towers. Baked beans were the food that gave the force to Boston armies, the eloquence to Boston orators, the life to Boston industry. Now, however, the bean sits humble and forlorn while in the place of honor the cake reposes in frosted complacency. Not so once. In Puritan days marriages in Boston were solemnized with the following oath, "To you I shall be true till Boston goes back on ye bean", murmured the wedding guests. "Till Boston goes back on ye bean", echoed the walls...
...triumph of practical chemical skill, combining many oils after refining, decolorization and deodorization. Last year, Britain imported $150,000,000 worth of vegetable oils, most of which went to her margarine makers. Imports included cottonseed oil from the U. S., as well as oils from palms, cocoanuts, soya beans, peanuts. The product is colored with the red annatto bean from Asia, and sells for half the price of butter...
Unfortunately, his name is not Patrick. "Pat" is all the Congressional Directory says. But he was christened "Byron Patton" in the Methodist Church. After he left college he was a pitcher on a semiprofessional baseball team. Since then he has spent most of his time "pitching bean balls"* at the Republican Party...