Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your friends as the most wonderful souvenir from old romantic Mexico, maybe after reading this article you will not be so proud of that PIECE OF SILVER. The silver in that sombrero is BLOOD MONEY because it was acquired by Aaron Saenz and by Calles . . . with the price of bread taken from the mouths of thousands of poor Mexican families...
California's Upton Sinclair began a week of three-minute, three-a-day personal appearances at a Hollywood theatre. Occasion : The showing of the cinema Our Daily Bread (TIME, Oct. 8) on which he collaborated slightly with Director King Vidor. Purpose: To chip about $2,000 off the debts incurred in his campaign for Governor. He proved a poor attraction...
...endless conversationalist, at her best when she takes off in a nonsensical plane of pretense. Her favorite jape is to pose as an abandoned woman who is living in sin with her author-husband, Charles G. ("Ceegee") Norris (Bread, Brass, Salt). This tomfoolery runs on & on, like a Chinese play, with "Kay" Norris ringing all the changes on her alleged state of total depravity...
...Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed: "The heavy bread consumption we are now experiencing indicates weakness in our livestock raising. However, pigs take the place of bread very well...
Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when...