Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceed with the distribution of favors to other sections of the community. The first move is being made by raising the prices of farm products and thus subsidizing the land-holding peasantry, active backbone, if prosperous, of any regime aimed at safeguarding private property. Dairy products are an indication; butter has risen in price by about one third, cheese by 30 per cent, cream by 25 per cent. Moral: stop the proletariat with the peasantry...
...Hall he declared: "There was so much tom-tom writing in the papers out here that I thought it well to make a swing around the circle. It was altogether unnecessary." He told the story of the New York chef who hastened out to the Midwest because "some big butter-&-egg man of those days" informed him there were "millions of bullfrogs" on his ranch. "He knew that because he heard them filling the night with their ke-dunking. Well, you know the rest. Like the lone coyote-like William Allen White-like several other of our institutions in this...
...cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were impressed by the enormous chorus. They liked the tender love motifs. But by the time Schönberg was on the way to becoming...
...scrambled with chipped beef and chopped celery. Light the oil stove and put double boiler on to heat. Twenty minutes to six already. Our time is two hours behind Eastern Standard. Eggs mixed, celery chopped, beef shredded, ready for cooking. Light oil lamp, set table, put on bread, preserves, butter, milk, catsup, sugar and cream. Put two tablespoons coffee (think that's right) in drip pot and put two cups water on to boil. Nearly six. Egg mixture put over now boiling water and stirred. Done in four minutes. Five after six and we are eating, I with...
...provide a mechanism through which goods and services can be exchanged with a minimum of friction. Accordingly, when the mechanism breaks down, as it has assuredly broken down, it is no less the duty of the government to repair it. As long as truckloads of fresh milk and butter are being dumped into Wisconsin creeks while unemployed factory workers in the city are standing in line for a bowl of soup, the responsibility of the government to effect physical transactions between the two groups is, even under the constitution a very real...