Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voyage on Bread. Morris Cohen began his journey in the strict Orthodox Jewish schools of Russia. He continued it in the public schools of New York City, after traveling steerage to the U.S., living during the whole trip on bread because the ship's food was not kosher. Later, he worked in a poolroom to get enough money to go through City College, finally was sent to Harvard on a scholarship. In 1902, he joined the City College faculty...
...found some Polish girls, still in their teens, from a previous transport. . . The girls told me how, when they first came to work in the pits, they cried with fear. The working day [was] eleven hours long. The only meal we had during those eleven hours was black bread and water . . . Punishment for ... tardiness was three months in prison...
Cummings is far from incompetent with this bread type of comedy, but while he is still learning it is hardly fair of Eagle-Lion Films to bring him into society. Perhaps the most objectionable feature of the film is the repeated use of the infamous "double-take." Everybody in "Let's Live A Little" employs the double-take, with the exception of Hedy Lamarr, who remains ossified throughout...
...dining room and a bedsitting room (never heated) where he received visitors. On the table which under Mindszenty's predecessors bore the exquisite weight of geese and pheasant and rich Hungarian wine, only one hot meal a day was set before the Primate. On Fridays, he ate only bread & water as a sacrifice for Hungary's liberation from Communism...
Food. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan checked into the price of bread, which has risen slightly in the last year, while the price of wheat has dropped almost one-third. The reason, said Brannan, was the thick slice taken by bakers and retailers; they keep 9.7? of a 14.5? loaf, as against the farmer's 3?. The profit on bread of eight representative food chains, said Brannan, was 18.2% (before...