Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goober Butter. For some weeks students were at work harvesting and cleaning goobers. A few bushels were hauled into town for hulling. Then Zeuch, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Bosch roasted, ground and mixed. There is about 150 pounds of goober butter now stored in the cellar and being served regularly at mealtime...
...four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician, one to be envied by many another less sure of his bread & butter...
Still rationed (purchasable only on presentation of a card) are bread, flour, meat, oil, gruel, sugar and Russia's beloved butter & herring. Men's clothing was not taken off the ration list, but the ration per man per year was increased...
...rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . The collapse of an inflated era of spending has suddenly sobered the American public. It isn't jokes and cocktails that they want now. It is bread and butter and facts. . . . These are the times when the conduct of a daily newspaper ceases to be a commercial enterprise. It becomes a stewardship that often involves great self-sacrifice and great courage...
Before she left for Europe this winter, Soprano Mary Garden behaved in a fashion unusual for a concert artist. She volunteered to cut her $3,000 concert fee. "Butter & eggs are cheaper," she said brusquely to her new managers, "why not concert artists?" No foolish virgin, Mary Garden was doing of her own accord what many another artist is being forced to do. Last week with the booking season at its height it was evident that artists' fees are well on the road to deflation. A dozen music salesmen were on the road selling singers, fiddlers & pianists...