Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long ago Bernarr Macfadden discovered that while a large audience will listen to lectures on whole-wheat bread, muscle-building and deep breathing, a much larger crowd will attend if the object on display is a nicely rounded female without too many clothes. Also he learned that a sermon on ethics will gain the ears of millions if the text is the parable of the stenographer who lusted for her employer. From these two truisms, aided by a complete lack of good taste, Bernarr Macfadden evolved a magazine publishing formula which made him rich. As years rolled by and millions...
...question. For weeks President Hoover was reluctant to drop what he considered his neutrality and mix in on Prohibition. The subject, because it was so largely emotional, made him impatient and cross. It was his wish to fight out the 1932 campaign on economic issues. He liked the slogan "Bread, not Beer." He feared that any notice he or his party might take of Prohibition would tend to magnify "beer" over "bread" and thus divert public attention from his long strenuous efforts to pull the country out of Depression. But "General"' Brown was persistent. He lined up most...
...close our eyes," cried Signer Grandi, "to the fact that hundreds of millions of men throughout the whole world feel that their peace, their daily bread depend on the solution of a few fundamental problems...
...expense of the lives of the workers, their wives and children. For three years Hoover promised prosperity. This prosperity takes the form of cities of unemployed, homeless millions in packing boxes, in cellars, under bridges, in sewers. . . . The issue of the election is that of work and bread, life or death...
...Substitution of the word elements for the phrase bread & wine in the communion service. (Methodists use unfermented grape juice in communion.) C. Revision of the marriage service, deleting the phrase with all my worldly goods I thee endow...