Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A penetrating tale of the theatre, behind the scenes in which a young man from Chillicothe invests his all in a bum show...
Everyone is sorry for professors; the idea is not a new one. It makes no student happy to see his learned and witty instructor pushing a baby-carriage because he cannot afford a nurse, wearing butter and eggs on his old vest because he cannot afford a new vest, slushing along without rubbers because he cannot afford a wife. Too bad; they ought to get more money. Editors have said it, bankers, statesmen, industrialists have said it; the country ought to raise their salaries. How much of a raise has generally been left vague, but not by one Frank Bohn...
...Whereas by Law 9th of Chap. 6 it is provided, that there shall always be Chocolate, Tea, Coffee, and Milk, for breakfast, with Bread, or Biscuit, and Butter, and whereas the foreign Articles above mentioned are now not to be procured without great difficulty, and at a very exorbitant Price; therefore that the Charge of Commons may be kept as low as possible...
...Voted, That the Steward shall provide at the common Charge only Bread, or Biscuit, and Milk for Breakfast; and if any of the Scholars choose Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate for Breakfast, they shall procure those articles for themselves, and where's the Sugar and Butter to be used with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Showard, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And rather, as Salt-Fish alone is, but the afores'd Law appointed for the Dinner...
...continued to expand on the subject of American wealth. Evidently he had never eaten a meal at the Cambridge lunch counters. "In Germany we pay for all our food; here you get bread and butter free." It is feared that he will never learn differently, as the party lunched yesterday at Massachusetts institute of Technology, and leaves shortly for Niagara Falls, Chicago. Pittsburgh, and Washington...