Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butter, 6 Vegetable Salad...
...Sacramento as chairman of the new State Board of Control, for which Neylan had drafted the plan. Chairman Neylan's achievements transcended all legal limitations of the job. When the superintendents of State institutions tried to tell him that oleomargarine was better for insane patients than butter, Neylan barked: "You are more important to the State than your patients. If oleomargarine is so good, you eat it!" He saw that they did. With his toughest teamster tactics he routed so many corrupt officeholders to San Quentin Prison that Governor Johnson called a halt, jokingly told friends that "Neylan...
...ways. A grandfather now, with his children leaving home for the specious advantages of town, foreigners and automobiles invading his old-fashioned peace and wont, Gus was rightly reputed richest man in the countryside, but it never affected his clothes or his habits. He still worked hard, took his butter and eggs to market himself, pulled his own teeth...
...approximate), His Majesty decided last week not to risk it at the Jubilee banquet. Guests will eat off china, may afterward view the gold plates, some of which some of them might have snitched, in a brightly lighted, closely guarded Buckingham Palace showcase. Even a butter plate would have been good...
...home, its money, even the piano from which the young musician could rarely be pried. An uncle who was a music critic arranged for his first public appearance in 1922. Year after, Vladimir played 70 concerts in Russia, 23 in Leningrad alone where he was paid in flour & butter as often as in rubles...