Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the dusty dismal science theoretically abstruse aloof from the workaday would. In the present age when the economic is woven with or even dominates the political and social as never before it is a live alert science seeking to deal intimately with the work and the daily bread of the world. The economics courses in our universities today are crowded and the numbers of graduates who attend business school before trying their wings in a very complex world grow savory year. Note too the profusion of fresh current authoritative economic literature that finds its way into the Sunday supplements...
...spoon weighs 25 pounds, my porridge is pasty iron and the heat of my kitchen is so great that if my body was not hardened to it the ordeal would drop me in my tracks. ... I am like some frantic baker in the inferno kneading a batch of iron bread for the devil's breakfast...
...George was abroad in Merry England. But no blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does not do to quarrel with one's bread and butter. Drink, after all, is the Gibraltar of Toryism...
...went with a common reporter to visit a 'needy case.' We visited a one-time housepainter, paralyzed by paint (lead) fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...
...forty years ago he accepted without question the philosophy which was handed him by his family and his alma mater. Professor Bode suggested a new teaching which will meet this point of view with a new interpretation, to give a unified view of life and present if in its bread aspects...