Word: broth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, May 24, 1926), headline writers and cartoonists have tended to give the impression that the delegates were quarreling and stewing in their own broth instead of getting down to business and disarming the world. Actually the task entrusted to the Preparatory Commission was to answer, "yes" or "no," to the question: "Can all the nations get together at a Disarmament Conference with sufficient chance of ultimate success to make it worth while for the League of Nations to call such a conference?" From "No" to "Not yet." A few years ago the only possible answer to the question faced...
...Sure and its a broth of a fine Lampoon" stated Officer O'---thought to be connected with the Cambridge Police Force. He was speaking of Lampy's Automobile number, so called for no apparent reason...
Guzzling orange juice, milk and broth, munching chocolate, losing 17 pounds, Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass., swam from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland last week in 22 hours, 45 minutes. He had previously failed to finish in William Wrigley Jr.'s $25,000 nautical derby over the same course which 17-year-old George Young of Toronto completed in 15 hr. 44 min. (TIME...
...Simon, carpenter, was warming a pan of broth in the kitchen of a frame house. His wife was sick upstairs; he had come home twice that day from work to give her food. He was expecting the doctor, and hearing a knock on the door he started forward. The sound of more than one pair of boots on the porch made him look out of the window. His yard was full of men. In long white robes they writhed with dismal laughter in the moonlight. They called to him "Come out, Simon." 'My wife's sick," he shouted...
...Board to place negotiations for the sale of ships to private parties in the hands of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer, President of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and keep its hands off except for a final O. K. or veto. His reason was that too many cooks spoil the broth. The Board was expected to agree-unwillingly-to this curtailment of its functions...