Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means the whole Sopwith Navy. Still in England are his old motor yacht Vita and his new motor yacht Philante, which will cross the Atlantic in June and on which Owner Sopwith will live this summer, using a 28-ft. runabout...
...Monday 150,000 cards were distributed throughout the Ford plants as a counter-drive against the U. A. W. A., which has begun to organize all Ford employees. These cards contained such Fordisms as "A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!" and "If you go into a union they have got you--but what have you got?" When washed and sifted, the opinions claim that New York financial interests control labor as well as the managers of industry, that union workers must pay for their jobs, that independent competition is essential...
Methodically, French and British warships continued to escort the evacuation of terrified, undernourished Bilbao children to Bordeaux. First shipload to reach La Pallice were hailed jubilantly by kindly French Communists who had prepared a feast with free catches donated by fishing boats, free bread from city bakeries. On the quayside they welcomed the Basque children with clenched fists and shouted choruses of the Internationale. Startled but pleased the Basque children shrilly sang back a Catholic hymn...
...other things: Tonight I go to Sicily, I hear there's a small town on a mountain top where they still speak Greek and drink a kind of a liquor which originated in Homer's time and do Greek dances and take you in and give you their best bread if only you'll tell them a story of your own country and show them something new. I say, "So I've heard" it's like this. But by now I wager it's a town on a mountain top with an Otis escalator going up, a Grand Hotel...
...Wave (1929) were much impressed, ranked it among the best Civil War novels vet written. Her books since then have been a continuous disappointment. Last week she annoyed, depressed and bored nearly everyone in sight with a 488-page novel "on the artist and the creative problem." Bread and a Sword was Evelyn Scott's third exhaustive mangling of the same unpopular theme; readers cheered her announcement that it was likely to be her last word on the subject...