Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of the last college meal before vacation only a scattered few were breaking bread in a House dining hall. There was a strange quietness about the room; the rustle of skirts and the clatter of silverware were the major sounds. Voices seemed hushed and shy. Because of the dearth of students many waitresses stood against the wall in idle talk. Spontaneously, above everything, there burst forth a song. In a moment all the girls were caroling to the diners. Applause rewarded this serenade; but that was not enough. As the remnants of the House were leaving, in a magnificent...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...
...years ago. Then they appeared in districts where immigrants were arriving from Russia, the Ukraine, the Carpathian Mts. The newcomers claimed to be Catholic but they lived by the Julian Calendar (Christmas on January 7), segregated men and women in their churches, had married priests who gave them the bread & wine of the mass mixed together in a spoon...
...August 1936, six New York Times editorial men, headed by grave 42-year-old Oliver Franklin Holden, assistant make-up editor, decided that "in this era of turmoil" newspapermen needed organization but along totally different lines from the bread-&-butter aggressiveness of the American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism...
Although it includes an exhaustive account of Marlowe's college years, largely based on the Cambridge "Buttery Book" that lists Marlowe's modest spendings for bread and beer, Christopher Marlowe reaches its high point in its account of the poet's death. Until Dr. John Leslie Hotson published the coroner's inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible...