Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul, her clerical father, "the meanest man in the world." "He practises slurping his soup," she said, "so he can do it louder and louder. He dunks his toast in his coffee and his bread in his tea. He wears out two Bibles a year just clutching at them when he thinks of me. . . ." She simply adopted Higbie Chaffinch, went to live with him, proposed that they become bootleggers. And they did become something equally disturbing to quiet Waiworth; to the respectable Joneses, the Murchthaws, the Quoggses...
...slurps" his soup, "dunks" his bread...
...lives again the days when, as a child of nine, she romped sedately in a pelissed jacket beneath a mushroom hat. Sometimes she recalls proudly that her husband once called her "the better man of the two." Mastication. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth consumed only dark, coarse "War bread" throughout the week. Peasants, the bourgeoisie and the nobility likewise masticated this coarse fare. Exporters estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian francs were saved during the week through this self denial, enforced upon the country by King-Albert, now Dictator of Belgium (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Protest. Delegations...
...menu: Breakfast- Rolled oats with milk and sugar, Parker House rolls, butter, coffee and jelly. Dinner-Fried pork chops, cream gravy, mashed potatoes, bread, cottage pudding and coffee. Supper-Cold lunch, ham, stewed fruit, bread...
...luxurious private houses of any sort, must confine themselves to public buildings and to dwellings for workmen, the lesser bourgeoisie. V. Restaurateurs and vintners are prohibited from selling anything after 10 p.m., from opening until further notice any new premises whatever for the sale of food or beverages. All bread must hereafter contain at least 15% of non-white flour...