Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piccadilly prince is about to marry the tearoom Cinderella. The man who brought Fortnum & Mason and ABC shops together: Canadian-born Willard Garfield Weston, 56, owner of Fortnum & Mason and boss of Britain's huge Allied Bakeries, who is known throughout the empire as "the Barnum of bread." If ABC stockholders approve, Baker Weston will pay $8,120,000 for ABC, one of England's biggest low-cost restaurant businesses, second only to Lyon's Corner House chain. Through Allied Bakeries, Weston already controls the United King dom's biggest bakery chain (10% of all Britain...
There are compensations-of a kind. In the vast Soviet prison system, Vorkuta is classified as a "polar camp," which means that prisoners get better food. The daily ration includes 800 grams of bread and two warm dishes, usually oatmeal, thick soup or beans with fat. There is meat twice weekly, fish four times. Movies, usually Russian, are shown three times a month. Pravda is pasted on the wall...
...more dizzying and imaginative height of superlative, and there is certainly no lack of abominations that waste everyone's time, but just good plays are rare. Perhaps it is because a producer is more confident of a play that is extreme, one way or another, than of a solid, bread-and-butter show that should neither fail nor celebrate staggering success...
Fortunately, Noddy is a popular fellow in Toyland. The Golliwogs like him, and so do Silky the Pixie, Big Ears the Brownie, and Mr. Pink-Whistle, "who goes about the world putting wrong things right." Thus, when Mr. Plod the Policeman wants to clap Noddy into jail on bread and water and rice pudding. Noddy's friends whisk him off on the Toyland Train ("Chuffity-chuffity-chuffity-chuff") to find the real culprits in Goblin-Land...
...obvious haymakers (The Caine Mutiny, The Egyptian, Sabrina, Country Girl) hit hard. A couple of Columbia's bread-and-butter farces (It Should Happen to You and Phffft!) made Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon a comic staple in the neighborhood theaters. In Knock on Wood, Danny Kaye renewed his lease on the adjective "incomparable," and with Dial M for Murder and Rear Window, the year's best thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock held his title as the world's foremost goose'esh-peddler...