Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
...United Kingdom. Even the nearby Canadian building, largely devoted to a tasteful showing of excellent photographs of the Great Open Spaces, is better. Sadly, Britain's great Liberal daily Manchester Guardian recently observed: "The external architecture of the British pavilion is that of a plain white biscuit-tin . . . except for a glass pane with a highly conventional and sour-looking Britannia...
...same six months of 1936. C, National Biscuit Co., which has been feeling the pinch of cracker competition. showed a slight gain in the second quarter, though a poor first quarter pulled down earnings for the six months to an indicated ,400,000. For the first half of last year the figure was $6,000,000. C. Helped by modernistic chewing-gum advertising designed by Artist Otis Shepard, William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed profits of $4,354,000 for the first half of 193?-compared to $3,428,000 in the same period of last year...
...Palace of Holyroodhouse, where the King and Queen were to stay for nearly a week, everything was spick & span. Ready laid out for them was the cutlery, plate and napery provided-to encourage royal visits-by the late Sir Alexander Grant, biscuit tycoon, great Scottish patriot and boyhood friend of James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
Next the Radical Alliance bestowed its blessings upon a C.I.O. strike, that of workers in the Loose-Wiles Biscuit plant in Lawrenceville, Pa., and last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance...