Word: broth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came home at 12. Why should his children come home half an hour earlier? The working classes voted solidly for a 12 to 2 lunch-hour, giving papa a chance to see his child and the child a chance to eat and digest the daily pot-au-feu, broth with huge chunks of sour Parisian bread. A strong minority voted to continue the present system. Thirty thousand families did not vote at all. Teachers became alarmed lest they should be required to work more than their statutory six hours a day. There were present all the ingredients of a seething...
...natural conclusion is that there are too many wholesalers, and while they may make very fine broth for themselves, they most certainly ruin the consumer's. Public control of industries has never been looked upon with favor and the Coal Commission has apparently fallen in with this sentiment by suggesting as a remedy the setting up of a "skeleton regulative machinery" over the entire production and interstate distribution of coal to be used only when the President judges that "an emergency exists". No doubt the Commission is right in implying that such profiteering exists only when there...
...Still, as a sincere if at times some-what tedious portrayal of a partic-ular angle of hobohemia, it is recommended to those who still con-sider Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened−in whiskey−to the time when he tossed a coin−" Heads I marry her, tails I don't." Abundance of Irish peasantry, family feuds, feasts, fights, fires...