Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publishers including Senator Arthur Capper, got a warm welcome from black-eyed, young Mrs. Landon II. Hogan, the Landon chauffeur, was summoned from the garage and clapped into white cotton gloves to help serve a sumptuous luncheon of chicken broth, steamed oysters, rice croquettes, a green vegetable, corn bread, pumpkin pie and coffee prepared by Daisy, the Landon cook...
...affairs! I saw Ethiopian soldiers tortured and mutilated because they had stolen a bit of grain or refused to fight. It was not only brutality by the Ethiopians toward Italian prisoners, but toward men, women and children of their own race. I saw children who had stolen a little bread, with hands chained to their feet. I have not written a book, I have written an epistle. Don't call me the Self-Styled Black Eagle of Harlem-just call me the Black Eagle...
While the original idea of a dramatic workshop came, like many another good thing, from Harvard University, our present facilities are incredibly poor. There is a striking need for the English Department again to provide itself with a real personality of the drama. When this bread is cast upon the waters, there will return such genuine love for the drama, that Harvard will build itself a college playhouse...
...State Department that he might lose his post as Minister from Iran. The Star then struck off two copies of a special edition in which Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special...
With cakes, nut-bread sandwiches and pots of tea, the ladies of the Society of American Etchers opened the organization's 20th annual exhibition at Manhattan's National Arts Club last week. Licking their buttery fingers, critics inspected 246 prints by practically all the best known etchers in the U. S., found prices ($4 to $36 a print) reasonable, technical excellence uniformly high and subject matter more than a little dull, despite the presence of a few startling prints by Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg. Quite lacking in false modesty is the society's president, John...