Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rowdyism. In an Oxford restaurant, a typical evening's fun begins with throwing of bread pellets, proceeds to butter pats, poulet en casserole, a huge chunk of smoked salmon, and ends with undergraduates pulling table legs from the tops. "When I was last in one of these restaurants the majority of the women present had enveloped themselves as far as possible in napkins and tablecloths...
...this horror, having sighted only two barren islands, they reached fertile Guam. By this time his men had chalked 85 murders against Magellan. Out of the 540 days the voyage had lasted, only two weeks, when they feasted at St. Lucy's Bay on roast peccary, manioc bread, batata and native women, could have been called pleasant...
...Progressive" Education. '"I cannot reconcile myself to a primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...
...course, old before their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds...
Unlike dissatisfied Europe, which produces communists and anarchists in national hotbeds, American dissatisfaction produces protestants in sectional cold-frames. And unlike the run of U. S. protestants, who protest only against any interference with their consumption of daily bread, many U. S. poets protest that that daily bread is so full of holes that it is more like daily starvation. Some of them, to get more literary nutrition, have gone to Europe: Missourian T. S. Eliot lives in England; Idahoan Ezra Pound lives in Italy. Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have...