Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband is a salesman and depends upon our car to earn our daily bread, but if Mr. Henderson needs our tires (we bought two new ones in September) he certainly may have them. We can always find another way to make a living...
...more & more United Nations ships go to the bottom, food is becoming the No.1 problem on the British home front. Last week the London Daily Herald burst out with a "Lick That Platter Clean" campaign. "The time has come," said the Herald, "when we must clean our plates with bread and send nothing back to the kitchen. . . . Jam, marmalade and all preserves must be dropped on to the food and never on to the plate...
...almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...
Russia, whose need is even greater. Restaurants have not served real butter for months, and portions of margarine are half the size of a postage stamp and nearly as thin. Bread is still plentiful, but last week a National Loaf was introduced, consisting of one-quarter white flour and three-quarters whole wheat. Nearly all milk is reserved for children, grownups being allowed only three pints weekly...
...brief burst of glory in a time when bigness was the sole criterion of success, when the papers were full of nothing but big murders, big investments, big swindles, big fortunes, big failures, and big trials. So a publicity mad public, a press that knew which side its bread was buttered on, and a lawyer to whom law was all Greek but a jury an open book, got together and built a gigantic myth and a spectacular murder trial around an innocent but willing flapper named Roxic Hart. The story is no more than enough to hold the picture together...