Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time Moscow was the seat of intrigue and the author now sees that no man could have prevented the Russians from plunging into Revolution for the sake of bread and peace. The "British Agent" admired many a Bolshevik bureaucrat and got into hot water with his colleagues and superiors for holding out against intervention. Upon finally giving into those about him, the "Agent" lost the confidence of the Bolsheviks and without gaining anyone else's. When Lenin was shot, Lockhart was held in prison for a month as a spy, but upon the recovery of Lenin no evidence could...
...Washington Street, Manhattan, early last month opened the Midday Soup Kitchen, serving 300 lunches of soup, bread & milk to the indigent. Observing the walls decorated with pictures of Cunard Liners, reporters last week discovered that the kitchen's manager is Lady Sparks, wife of Cunard's New York manager, Sir Thomas Ashley Sparks. "Really, " smiled she, "I'm only the cook here...
...German Republic," said Count Eulenberg, "is like an African Negro who struts about in a high silk hat, celluloid cuffs and with a red parasol-thinking he's a civilized gentleman! . . . [Guffaws] There is no better capital investment, my friends, than a bright and shining sword [cheers]. . . . Bread comes through the sword...
...three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
...earlier Ruth Chatterton pictures-Madame X, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district attorney of San Francisco at the age of 25, audiences...