Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be 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...
...liberal education and vocational training has broken out at New Haven, with the Yale News and Mr. Roger W. Babson, founder of the Babson Institute, new antagonists on an ancient battle ground. A somewhat heated editorial on Mr. Babson's educational ideas, characterizing the business man as "the biggest butter and egg man ever laughed at", aroused the wrath of Mr. Babson, who has retorted with a letter designed to prove--via the Socratic method--the superiority of an institution which develops the fundamentals of a successful business career to the average four year college course...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A satirical tale of the Theatre, heavily buttered with brilliant lines and deftly egged on by the skill of Gregory Kelly...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN?A sage tale of life behind the scenes in the Broadway theatre...
...ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...