Word: butter-and-egg
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...Cent is just about that successful. It tells about a Jewish butter-and-egg man who plays "angel" to a play so his daughter may be starred. One of the producers is Thomas Jackson, who functions as the detective in Broadway. The Triumphant Bachelor...
Broadhurst, West 44th St.--Back stage at a night club, with bootleggers, butter-and-egg men, murders, detectives, lovers, etc. Lee Tracy as the self-made "hoofer" almost makes you believe there is such a person. Eloise Stream, in a minor part, convinces you of her reality. You can't help being conscious of the fact that Sylvia Field, playing opposite Tracy, is acting...
...southern tier" of New York State-the lush butter-and-egg and grape juice counties along the Pennsylvania line-they all know Frank Ernest Gannett. He is the big newspaperman of the region; owns seven dailies, in Rochester, Utica, Elmira, Ithaca, Newburgh. He is a sort of little Munsey in his way, having consolidated various competing organs to make up his string, always keeping an eye open for fresh opportunities...
...craving for chocolate creams, a medal presented him by Albert of Belgium as thanks for taking a strong Allied stand in the Cincinnati Post in defiance of his many pro-German readers; John B. Perkins, whose Journal has nine editions daily in one of the country's largest butter-and-egg centres, Sioux City, la.; E. B. Stahlman, owner of the Nashville, Tenn., Banner, who had lived 83 years and seen his grandson become his managing director...
...hard to say which was the sillier-Rupert Hughes . . . or those other guests of the occasion who took the outbreak seriously enough to get vocally angry about it. ... [In addition to what Mr. Hughes said,] Washington also kept hens and a dairy. He was thus a rich butter-and-egg man from the South; but so to describe him would be a long way from characterizing the Washington that matters...