Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More butter was smeared on by General Jiro Minami, until recently ambassador-boss and commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo. Said he last week: "The improvement of policing, development of commerce and maintenance of cordial relations with neighbor States are the Kwantung Army's cardinal policies...
Fortnight ago Captain Fleischer testified that the name of "Ella," squiggled on the wrappers of some butter found in his car, was the U. S. Army trademark. Other witnesses disputed this testimony. Last week, "Ella" strode into court in the person of svelte, blonde Ella Anderson of Brooklyn. She admitted that she had met the Captain in Panama six years ago, that they had since become good friends. Of the supplies which the Captain was accused of having filched for her, "Ella" professed complete ignorance...
...which rightfully belonged in the larder of the U. S. Army. Last July 3, he was further accused of raiding the Army's icebox for two Army chickens (84?), two Army tenderloins of beef (96?), two slabs of Army cheese (22?), three lb. of Army butter (70?). For $20.14 he sold civilians some Army cakes, withheld sums of money due the Army. Total embezzlement...
Second day of the trail the name of "Ella," which had been written on the wrapper of a pound of purloined butter, roused the court from its drowsiness. Captain Fleischer, a bachelor, explained that "Ella" was only a "trademark on Army butter." Two days later Mess Sergeant John Maresca rebutted this interpretation, testified that Fleischer had specifically ordered "one of each item of the menu of Thanksgiving dinner for his lady friend, Ella." Sergeant Maresca also revealed that Fleisher had been foolhardy enough to send a ham to Major Renn Lawrence, whose complaint led to Fleischer's court-martial...
Whereupon, afternoon coming on, we to lunch at Maison Louis, which serves delicious unsalted butter, and by and by I alone to stroll along Fifth Avenue and was much surprised to meet---- whom I have not seen in five years and all in one breath she tells me she is married now and I ought to see the African Art Exhibition and the Flower Show and I ought to see her "Junior" too. We to see Junior, and the little one did want to come so much we all three to the Flower Show...