Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students noticed Senator Sumner, made conspicuous in his perch by a shining plug hat which he had forgotten to remove. With rhythmic regularity, feet began to pound. Sumner bowed deeply. The stomping increased in direct proportion. He bowed again. Half a dozen lumps of bread whistled by his head. One of his escorts hurried up to him and asked him to remove the hat. He did so, and all was peace again. Shortly afterward, the Maintenance Department posted a sign on the stairs leading to the balcony. It is visible to this day. "Gentlemen will please remove their hats...
...practically the only beverage used during the college's first century. Fifty-five undergraduates, consumed on the average of 270 barrels of beer a year. It was drunk at all meals as water was considered unwholesome. Breakfast known as "morning bever" consisted of beer and a chunk of bread. "Afternoon bever" preceded prayers at five o'clock in the afternoon...
...Soviet Cosmetics Queen was, however, in the U. S. on business, traveling under the incognito of Olga Karpovskaya. Up to 1934 her cosmetics were unfashionable in bread-hungry Russia, and Moscow newsorgans sharply ridiculed the cosmetics trust without mentioning the fact that its head was wife of the President of the Council. In those dark days Mme Molotov used no cosmetics herself, dressed in knitted caps, dark suits and belted raincoats. Last week, Joseph Stalin's views on Fun-for-the-Masses having been changed by better times, Mme Molotov could cheerfully tell U. S. newshawks through an interpreter...
...bright idea of mixing a physic in bread flour occurred to a St. Louis trio named Edward Ownen, Frank Dawdy and Glenn Allmon, who composed Bakers' Research Co. That bread, a staple article of diet, should not be used to mask the presence of a cathartic, seemed sound to Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Mr. Campbell had the St. Louis three called to court where they were fined $600, "one of the largest recent penalties" imposed for a food & drug violation, Chief Campbell crowed last week...
...From the Hotel Wausau they took busses to the Hamburg ranch, found free drinks and bowling alleys, Wisconsin maidens serving kosher meats at the ranch clubhouse. Proceeds of the first sale ($200) were donated to a New York Matzoh Fund, a charity devoted to supplying needy Jews with Passover bread. Average pelt was auctioned for about $75; best pelt, bought by Melville Steil, president of Simpson Furs, Los Angeles, brought $465. At the close of the auction, Host Fromm said he had not been "so much gratified" since the day in 1917 when the Fromm brothers paid off the mortgage...