Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pound of butter...
...inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps a little nitrogen-rich air between the two sacks. The gas holds the tissues apart until the inflammation goes away. Inflammation causes an exudation from the sacks. Doctors have merry names to describe the appearances of the exuding membranes-bread & butter pericardium, when the facing surfaces of the two sacks look like the slices of a bread & butter sandwich pulled apart; shaggy pericardium, when the surfaces are rougher than in the bread & butter state; icing, frosting, sugar-coated heart, when the sacks acquire a glassy surface. Dr. Claude Schaeffer Beck...
There are more ways of choking a dog than by feeding him hot butter. There are more ways of getting some of the benefits of an extra session of Congress, President Hoover has found, than by calling an extra session. Last summer, when he felt that a one-year moratorium and suspension of interest payments on War debts must be announced, the President invented the "Congressional conference." He telephoned and telegraphed every member, talked with a few important ones. Within 24 hours he had sufficient support to announce his plan (TIME, June 29). The business world was saved the worry...
...poet before that. Married in 1913 to "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), U. S. born imagist poet, he no longer lives with her. Demobilization found him penniless, jobless, touchy. A reviewing job on the London Times Literary Supplement was soon too much for his nerves; translation has given him his bread & butter. An Englishman born & bred. Aldington has left what he thinks is a sinking ship, lives in the south of France. Other books: War & Love, Images of Desire, Death of a Hero, Roads to Glory (TIME...
...cinema from vaudeville, joined the Hal Roach (Our Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...