Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maggie, the oldest, capable and devoted, got precious little help from moony-spoony May, the Campion beauty, or from butter-fingered Lily who couldn't say boo to a goose. But she scrimped and saved and cooked, gave up the lover who would have carried her off to South America, sent Victor to Harvard, petted him when he flunked out and came home to loaf, feet on fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed...
...snow-burned flyers, nourished on pemmican (food made from beef and dried fruits), chocolate, biscuits, tea, sugar, bacon, butter and the cheaper brands of cigarets, sallied out of Flagler Fjord, established a second base on Ellesmere Island, 120 miles northwest of Etah as the biplane flies...
...Lindsay Crawford, representing the Irish Free State, said that a determined effort was to be made against calling any product "Irish" that was not made in Ireland. The effort, he continued, is to be directed against those who sell "Irish" poplin, mackerel, butter and other products...
...diet used by Dr. Peterson is not unusual except in the large amount of fat and the small amount of carbohydrates included. As much as six-sevenths of the total food is made up of such fats as cream, butter, olive oil, codliver oil and any other fatty food that children will take. Sugars and starches arc cut to a minimum and protein sufficient to maintain bodily growth is carefully added. Dr. Peterson reported that, in addition to the cessation of all epileptic symptoms, the youngsters slept sounder, minded their parents better...
This matter of bringing a convention to a city is not to be taken lightly. If properly boosted, it means mounds of dollars in revenues, piles of superlatives in the post-mortem headlines and bread-and-butter letters, a conspicuous place in the sun for at least a few of the organizers for at least a few days and an enviable chapter in the Chamber of Commerce or Kiwanis or Rotary records...