Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, with all the Stateville prisoners locked up on bread-&-water (plus one sausage per day), a legislative committee began to investigate the outbreaks. Still smouldering, the inmates of one cell-block staged one last demonstration to interrupt the proceedings. From the walls the legislators watched the men being driven back to their cells...
...When all the bakers of Athens struck last week, Greek soldiers were ordered to knead and bake; Athens continued to eat fresh bread. Soon foxy old Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos had an even better idea. He announced that he would call the striking bakers to the colors, enroll them for compulsory military service, order them as soldiers to return to their bakeries...
...Paris, savants of the French Medical Academy ruled upon an appeal by French bakers that they be allowed to use baking powder in bread. To support their appeal, the French alleged that baking powder is used by U. S. bread-bakers (most U. S. bakers use yeast) and that the health of U. S. bread-eaters has never been impaired in consequence. The use of baking powder, they declared, is an "efficient method," a "laborsaving device" and a ''time-saving expedient'' because it makes possible the elimination of manual kneading...
France eats four times more bread per capita than any other nation. French breadmaking has long been regulated by strict laws. French gourmets have always stood for hand-kneaded bread raised without baking powder. Therefore last week the French Medical Academy faced a grave responsibility, their decision was awaited with a popular interest...
...characterization. She does not fail you. Old Rebecca Random, heroine of these heroic couplets, lived in a picturesque, tumbledown cottage in the English village of Love Green. The cottage attracted tourists' favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village pub. One winter night she got drunk in the graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became an arty...