Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shirt-Consumer. In Cambridge, Mass., a Harvard professor, to pay off a bet, ate his shirt after dissolving it in acid, neutralizing the acid, filtering out the precipitate, spreading it on bread...
...Money. The daughter of an Irish streetcar conductor, she was ten when she earned her first money (25?) for singing. The stage: a bread box in front of a Philadelphia store. Even then, her voice was hoarse, her hair stringy, her teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...
...What I want," Janes told TIME Correspondent William P. Gray in the bare, inhospitable, sandbagged hut he shares with 18 other marines, "is an explanation of what I'm doing here. Then I'll sleep better. . . . We're buttering somebody's bread, riding these coal trains. Why don't these Chinese National troops run their railroads? They've gotta be protected wherever they go. If anybody gives me a good explanation why I'm here, I'll keep still...
Taxicab Sense. Despite Juan Perón's demagogic bread-&-circuses campaign, Candidate Tamborini might have a chance -in the,unlikely event that the elections were free. The average Argentine was just mad enough at the rocketing cost of living and the gnawing sense of general unrest to give Tamborini...
...tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...