Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glimmer deceptively gold and crimson in the sun, as with a vernal life and freshness. The tang in the air will stimulate the will to live, when old men will feel young and explain "Indian summer." Then the Vagabond will take to Nature a bottle of sweet wine, and bread and cheese, and her, to make one more memory against the icy death of winter...
...next oldest in a family of nine children raised on a South Georgia farm. I can never remember seeing on our table a lamb chop, glass of sweet milk, whole wheat bread, spinach, lettuce or celery. Our parents disliked sweet milk and we were not forced to drink it. We ate fruits & vegetables in season: none out; had beef on Sundays. We consumed approximately the following...
Keats loved her at first sight. "The very first week I knew you, I wrote myself your vassal," he recorded. It was not for her wit, for he had more; nor for her money, since he planned to win their bread as a surgeon; nor for her beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being...
...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...
...shoe-shining device promptly begins whirring over the driver's toes. The seat flops back and a gas range appears. From an icebox which has handily sprung out of the vehicle's superstructure, Broadway Joe extracts the makings of a midnight snack, cutting the bread with a hatchet and finally nailing the sandwich to the roof. An escalator then lowers Mr. Cook to the stage where he relates at length the trip he has just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson...