Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While many of the boys of today are feverishly putting on the golf green, Cal was happy in pursuing to its lair the sportive potato. . . . He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese...
...quote at random. "This is another story of the Log Cabin to the White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice...
...only 24 hours; that bread and water is only meted out to those who assault their fellow immigrants (a Negro was the only one so treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...
While the value of the mark was dropping almost to that mythical region in mathematics, infinity, the Passion Players continued to charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder...
...Berlin, where butter costs 6,500 marks a pound and is no longer served in the restaurants, pocket butter-boxes are in vogue...