Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven), famed in his home town of Springfield, Ill. as much for civic enthusiasm as for poetry, recently backed the city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch...
...Fresh meat, sugar and butter are scarce to the point of extreme rarity in the interior, but black bread, bologna and fish seem fairly plentiful...
...peasants are learning a painful caution about black bread. It is made of rye. Russian rye is subject to ergot rust. Sometimes only one or two grains of the rye head are affected. The ergot is useful in obstetrics. In Russia, ergot occasionally is ground in with the rye flour, inadvertently causes abortions, gangrene...
Critics of present-day institutions of learning are too apt to consider the college as a meditative brooding-machine for the hatching of bread-winners. Not until undergraduates realize that school, college, and later life are a continuous curve, not until graduates cease to separate college from the "great world" will these critics cease to be right...
...Publisher. Carl Byoir made a fortune from patent medicines and cosmetics, among them Nuxated Iron and Blondex, etc. He visited Havana in 1928 because he heard the climate would relieve his sinus affliction. Constitutionally unable to remain inactive-or to stomach Cuban bread-he started an "American" bakery. But this could not for long absorb a man who served in Europe on President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence...