Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact was that Madrid's enthusiasm was real, not the synthetic show that Madrilenos are accustomed to giving for Franco. The 200,000 who lined Madrid's floodlit streets on the night of her arrival knew that Evita-and Argentina-stood for the wheat in their bread. As they saw more of her, on balconies, in the theater, at the bull ring, they learned that she had a way with a Spanish crowd...
...cast has consumed onstage some 1,170 Ibs. of coffee, 800 gallons of milk, 3,200 loaves of bread, 19,000 oranges and 2,200 boxes of breakfast cereal...
Vindication. In Long Branch, N.J., Maurice Podell, who as a little boy used to fiddle with his food instead of eating it as he should, attained fame of a sort as a sculptor in rye bread...
Bill of Fare. Summer boarders at Peggy's eat well. For breakfast there are bacon & eggs, toast, marmalade or jam, home-made bread or rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...
That the Rosenbergs had any home at all was a triumph for Billy's mother, Fannie Rosenberg, a woman as firm and substantial as black bread. Fannie did everything big. She yearned for a 30-room house. In later, better days, she frequently brought home 20 pounds of fish for her little family, and baked up vast heaps of pastry that lay around for weeks going stale. In bigness, Fannie found an outlet from an environment that imprisoned her as a radiator imprisons steam. At this steam valve, Billy was nurtured and here he inhaled the megalophilia that...