Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago on a drizzly December morning 75 Russians stood in the lounge of the M. S. Lafayette, each solemnly breaking off a bit of rye bread and dipping it in salt. The ceremony was an ancient one, observed in Russia by peasants and tsars. On this occasion it was intended to bring good fortune to the dancers of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, arriving in Manhattan for their first U. S. season...
Mayor McNair declared a legal holiday. Businessmen in the Triangle were told to lock what doors they could reach, turn the keys over to Guardsmen. Bread sold at 30? per loaf, candles at four for $1. As night fell on the lightless city the flood was still rising. In the Roosevelt Hotel water lapped the lobby ceiling. Above stairs 575 guests and employees were marooned without heat, food or water. Two cinema theatres were flooded to their balconies. Above the flood line, the William Penn and Pittsburgher Hotels were jammed. Guests ate by candlelight, toiled up stairs and found their...
were turned out to pasture, at the hours their betters are engaged on weekdays earning their daily bread; if the Church would bring itself into consonance with the ways of modern living ... we would not have a Lent of languorous, lackadaisical observance, or much worse of none, but a Holy Week of new intensiveness...
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week...
...Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...