Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received a proposal from Thomas Dunbar Green, president of American Hotels Association, that hotels throughout the land donate a daily quota of soup and bread to hungry jobless...
Thus defiantly Scot MacDonald stated the fact that millions of Great Britain's laboring men will not stand for a tax or tariff of any sort which they think might raise the price of bread. His words were widely said to have "killed the Conference" which made no progress last week, prepared to adjourn...
...takes something to write about simple people, countrymen, immigrants, without being photographic, drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...
...stories. Some of them: A farmer accuses himself of the murder of his wife, but he imagined it all. A hired man falls in love with the lady he works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot...
From burdock roots, whose clinging burrs ("beggar buttons") annoy rural promenaders, catch in hunting dogs' tails, John Christian Krantz Jr., 31, director of pharmaceutical research for Sharp & Dohme (Baltimore chemists), produced cookies and bread which diabetics may eat with benefit, he told the University of Maryland Biological Society last week...