Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared. At Corinto, not only President Adolfo Diaz was present but also onetime-President Frutos Chamorro, "Conservative" leader of 17 revolutions in the past four years, and President-Elect Jose Maria Moncada, "Liberal" leader whose election was overseen by U. S. Marines. All three boarded the Maryland to break bread and discuss common desires. At a shore reception, Mr. Hoover had been handed a glass of champagne which he politely touched to his lips but did not sip. He now toasted Nicaragua in water and observed: "This occasion . . . represents a growing and united Nicaraguan people; a consolidation of forces...
...small boy in South Carolina he read a book which proved the South had won the Civil War. Such was his surprise when he later learned otherwise that his curiosity, permanently caught, culminated in his study of Grant. In between time, however, he was advertizing man, banker, author of Bread and Circuses, George Washington, and admitted originator of the word "debunk." Patriots, private as well as professional, cavilled at his .debunking of George Washington, will carp at the same treatment of Grant. Of Washington, Author Woodward replied he had made no effort to "show him up"; had merely tried...
...Mesopotamia. Some bread, wheat, barley, peas and pistachio nuts were dumped into the bins of a great temple at Kirkuk, Iraq, some 3.500 years ago. They were still there, although carbonized, when diggers recently uncovered the building. Nearby was the home of a rich family. Clay records tell of their marriages and adoptions, their business in slaves, securities, and goods, their loans, deposits and lawsuits...
...Caspar Hauser, 17, stumbling alone into Nürnberg, stimulated general curiosity because he could neither walk nor talk better than a child of two. He could remember that he had always lived in darkness (presumably a cell), slept on straw, eaten only bread and water, played pathetically with a toy horse. This data formed the basis of a famous criminologist's charge that Caspar, a legitimate prince, had been criminally secreted and finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth...
...Hush, Kinder," the mother murmurs, her voice choked with emotion, "Papa will soon be home. He will surely bring us bread...