Word: biscuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern medicine, the eager solons are not content to wait for trouble to appear but plan to nip it in the budnay, in the very seed, before it is visible to the untrained eye. Thus Senator Beaver of Oklahoma would make it illegal in that state to "circulate" biscuits--apparently a quaint native custom--of less than three inches in diameter and one inch in thickness. "The society biscuit," he warns grimly, "in the curse...
...National Dairy Products Co., organized as a merger of previously separate dairy concerns in 1923, recently acquired the Sheffield Farms, Inc.-leading milk producer. National Dairy Products now have an annual sales volume of about $100,000,000, which compares with $130,000,000 for National Biscuit and $100,000,000 for the Continental Baking Corporation...
...which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic difficulties. In this case one wife could cook and was cold; the other had an overabundance of feelings but no craft at biscuit-baking. Their husbands exchanged. Then nobody was happy...
...Whereas by Law 9th of Chap. 6 it is provided, that there shall always be Chocolate, Tea, Coffee, and Milk, for breakfast, with Bread, or Biscuit, and Butter, and whereas the foreign Articles above mentioned are now not to be procured without great difficulty, and at a very exorbitant Price; therefore that the Charge of Commons may be kept as low as possible...
...Voted, That the Steward shall provide at the common Charge only Bread, or Biscuit, and Milk for Breakfast; and if any of the Scholars choose Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate for Breakfast, they shall procure those articles for themselves, and where's the Sugar and Butter to be used with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Showard, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And rather, as Salt-Fish alone is, but the afores'd Law appointed for the Dinner...