Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonder if all our English visitors must recite that carry on tale about the frogs in the cream vat and the pat of butter. Here Cosmo Hamilton repeats it (TIME, May 4). I heard that English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case, an affair whose origin had nothing whatever to do with Prohibition. Two months ago, after frugally breakfasting on bread and butter, porridge and coffee, out for a walk went Finland's George Washington or First President (1919-25)-Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg. With him walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland's ablest female novelists. Scarcely were they out of sight of their house than they were whisked...
...realtors on their way to their state convention were lettered: WE ZOOM FOR ZENITH. And a banner proclaimed: ZENITH THE ZIP CITY-ZEAL, ZEST AND ZOWIE! Heading the delegation was one George Follansbee Babbitt ". . . 46 years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay. His face was babyish . . . despite his wrinkles and the red spectacle-dents on the slopes of his nose. He was not fat but he was exceedingly well fed. ..." This...
...takes fifty cows to supply Dunster House with milk and at least 100 hens to keep the house dining room with eggs. 5,460 square inches of bread, 960 pieces of butter, 45 dozen hot rolls and great quantities of griddle cakes are consumed every day according to information given out by Edgar Sane, Dunster House steward...
...Acute Shortage." Indignant, the British National Farmers' Union complained that its members are being undersold in the home market by "Russian grain, fruit, butter, eggs, sugar and timber . . . despite the acute shortage of these products in Russia...