Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Zoar, near New London, Conn., Sergeant W. E. Bushy of the state police cast bread upon the waters, literally. He was hunting for the body of a Mrs. George Lewis. Recalling a traditional procedure,† he set five loaves adrift, having to guess where to start them as Mrs. Lewis had drowned unseen, while fishing, her empty boat being the only clue. Four loaves floated idly about. One came to a purposeful halt. Grappling beneath the arrested loaf, Sergeant Bushy brought up Mrs. Lewis's body...
What, if any, laws govern the attraction of a dead body for a loaf of bread, scientists have never determined. One theory: the same currents that carry a body into a backwater or hole under an eddy, will carry a loaf of bread to that spot, on the surface...
...Sending bread to find drowned bodies occurs in Tom Sawyer and also in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. When Huck, escaped from his father after the latter has kidnapped him from Widow Douglas, runs away to Jackson's Island leaving signs of a foul murder, the townsfolk first fire cannon over the Mississippi River to try to raise his supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver...
...retire, the intermediary between heaven and earth, who teaches the doctrines of the Redeemer, who regenerated your children with the waters of baptism who pardoned your faults and healed your sorrows, who lifted heavenward the Body of Christ offered in the Sacrifice, who gave ( you the bread of the strong, who blessed your chaste loves, who assisted at the bed of your dying and who prayed at the tomb ol your deceased...
...curly nose and an eye like a new horsechestnut; coarse-mouthed and lyric-handed, a good hater, a bad lover, a composer who made his reputation as another man would make his point in a dice game, Pietro Mascagni. It was in Leghorn, Italy, that his father baked bread, but the rumor that Pietro helped in the family trade has never been verified. Indeed, the boy Mascagni refused from the first to soil his hands with flour; he seemed to have an illimitable capacity for roistering, in reward for which, when he was sixteen, his father propelled him into...