Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Workers' Alliance charged down from the gallery. Ray Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...
...slow to understand as the persistent cameramen. After a gilded first night (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt had brought an abundant harvest. There was a great clamor for tickets, a queue waiting for standing room. Persistent applause greeted the dancers who could spin with such grace, leap with such ease...
...French father, a U. S.-born mother. Georges Martin was born in Paris, orphaned by the War, raised and educated in France by a Philadelphian he has never seen. When his profession as an electrical engineer barely brought him bread, he commercialized his digital talent. "I make bread and butter and jam," he now can say, "soon I think there will be caviar...
...Thurston, 67; in Miami Beach, Fla. His most adroit tricks often embarrassed people of : In Washington he once removed a genuine bottle of whiskey from Andrew J. Volstead's pocket. At the White House, he smashed President Coolidge's watch with a hammer, produced a loaf of bread, cut it apart, pulled out the watch, ticking and whole...
Reed wanted to be among the college cake-eaters but could not resist showing that he knew bread was a better diet. By persistence and ability he became an ''activity man," made the Lampoon and the Monthly, was active in many a club...