Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supplicate the Freshmen for the customary wherewithal. The Seniors are under promise of good behavior; should Yearling thrift cause them to forget this promise, all future pictures will be debarred, and all future pienics endangered. Therefore let the latter play their part with largess and goodwill; it will prove "bread upon the waters" with a particular aptitude for successful navigation...
...stipulate the time to be allotted to each part of the examination paper, and personally explain exactly what is expected for each item. But this policy has not been pursued far enough. Week in and week out one hears the oft-repeated complaint that the instructor has expected bread when he but asked for a stone. The student can hardly answer the question before he understands its meaning...
...casual inspections to be in good shape. Of course we did not use the German dining service on this night journey, but it may be said that while the matter of trains is under discussion, that the food served there was plentiful and good, and that the requirement for bread-cards was the only reminder of abnormal conditions. Whether the prices should be called high or low depended as elsewhere upon whether one thought in the old value of marks or in dollars. A certain excellent luncheon on the train cost us fifty-two marks each,--the equivalent of seventy...
...colored goose grease in attractive pats but of villainous taste was served in place of butter. One of our business friends who owned a cow gave us some butter in a flat silver box made to be carried in the coat pocket. Sugar was short but not absent, and bread could be obtained without a card only at the hotel were one was registered...
...chief magistrate of Boston, this time alone, spent the night incognito among the dwellers of his capital. As "No. 69" he slept at the Wayfarer's Lodge, and with 75 other "down-and-outers" chopped wood from five 'till nine in order to earn his breakfast of oatmeal, bread and coffee. "And they came to a fair garden all set about with trees, wherein was a fountain and in the midst whereof there stood a pavilion--" relates the Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Something rather different must have greeted the Mayor for he has since recommended the expenditure...