Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plymouth--"The Butter and Egg Man"--8.20 o'clock. A fool and his money at 200 per cent. You'll shovel and like...
...plan to enter politics sooner or later are exceedingly rare. The wealthy students who could enter public life immediately upon the completion of their education have few public thoughts and fewer thoughts for the public; the students who must depend upon a business or profession for bread and butter do not look forward to the time when they may be free to do public service. Futile it is to point to the unattractive characteristics of present political campaigns until the competition for public office becomes so intense that none but the intelligent, those who treat public life in a sane...
...culinary department that his mis-management was most flagrant, and most felt. According to a contemporary account, the daily diet was mostly "porrige and pudding served without butter or suet." Mrs. Eaton, on whom her husband blamed the Squeersian board, admitted that "the flower was not so fine as it might nor so well boiled and stirred, and that the fish was bad." Pressed as to the presence in the menu of one of the most stable of foods-today, the lady said, "Beef, they never...
...years ago, in Montgomery County, Tenn., she was christened Elizabeth Meriwether. She knew love early; married one George O. Gilmer at the romantic age of 18. Misfortune smote her. Now she says in her philosophy of life: "/ am not afraid of poverty. ... I have earned my bread and butter for many years." At 26 she found herself editing the women's department of the New Orleans Picayune (now the Times-Picayune). Her printed words were bathed in the milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice that people gobbled up. She became an oracle - thousands of letters...
Truly the romantics are growing gayer every minute. To jest, the canons of art are stilled, hushed the small weapons. But never can an editorial become lyric, even in critical disquisition upon the, was it "kisses not for our mouths." Mix a butter and egg world with New York atmosphere, synthetic gin and the romantic: result--omelette. To put it more plainly, one can quote Rolfe Humphries "Text for a Bitter Vision...