Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East End gave the night of the Trafalgar trouble to such once popular Laborites as John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Will Thorne and the Labor Party's present leader Old George Lansbury. At different meetings they were all booed and shouted down with such sarcastic cries as "We want bread not tome!" and "Tell us the old, old story...
...efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that Harvard men are not so attractive, amiable, and delightful as she was wont to feel. There is something about countless evenings over scrambled eggs and sausages in the Somerset or milk and ginger bread in the kitchen that tends to sap even the most vital girl's interest in vague, suave, sophisticated, even brilliant young men-of whom the Vagabond once was one. But he can't tell her this-she must find this out for herself. And when it is all over, when...
...urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life insurance companies would have faced an emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank A. Seiberling, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sebastian Spering Kresge, Byron D. Miller (Woolworth), William Wallace Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Henry Latham Doherty, Joseph and Robert Graham, William Larimer Mellon, Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green (son of the late Hetty Green...
...after the rudiments of music which most musicians learn as children. For years Berlioz scraped along on next to no money. He had a few pupils to whom he taught singing, flute, guitar. He sang evenings in the chorus of a second-class theatre, ate his meals of dry bread and raisins at the base of Henri IV's statue-all so that he could study at the Conservatoire. Conservatoire students were supposed to bow down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible...
...Vagabond prefers the present to the past, because the Steward was required "to provide at the common charge only bread or biscuit and milk for breakfast." For this reason, and others, he will remain in the present to go to the New Lecture Hall at 11 o'clock this morning, and hear Professor Mark lecture on the American Revolution...