Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing aid, but Mr. Meredith's price-fixing scheme aims to eliminate...
...breakfast, wheat or corn bread, at the choice of each particular, with butter, and milk, or Coffee-au-lait, at the choice of each, no meat...
...pressed a button. A swarm of jeweled lights, like golden bees, glittered down labyrinthine corridors; laughed to dingy scorn the former butter lamps; focused the palace miracle-wise to the night-enshrouded startled gazers in the valley below. "It is well," said the Grand Lama. "Remove the butter lamps...
ALIGHT, whimsical story of a kind-hearted big butter and egg man is this latest of Mr. Hargraves' novels. It is easy reading; entertaining, amusing, but of course, lacking in depth. It doesn't make you think, but it does make you smile. If that is what you are looking for, we recommend "And Then Came Spring" heartily...
...never let it be thought that this column has not sufficient of the aesthetic urge. Only last week was to the Plymouth and did see Gregory Kelley in the "Butter and Egg Man" where there is one beautiful titian tressed milady who doth make a man's heart beat with no uncertain beating and where Robert Middlemas late of the Harvard Dramatic Club, not very late, yet does nobly by his part which is amusing plus a cigar...