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...play out of Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father, Novelist Dell and Playwright Thomas Mitchell realized that it would be necessary to change the name of the book. The Little Accident was their idea of an improvement; but, having contributed this, they kept their fingers out of the butter and effected a thoroughly charming comedy...
Present depression in the coal and textile industries were touched on lightly, explained briefly. Then came a table of statistics showing how many more pounds of "that useful mixture," bread and butter, the U.S. wage-earner can buy with his wages than any other wage-earner in the world...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
...Sleet: "That girl couldn't cook. She tried to fry a steak one day and used so much grease it was awful. And eat-why she would eat a cube of butter at one meal and drink a quart of milk...
Testimony indicates that unorthodox foods can be made appetizing. Snake and chicken are much alike.* Like white meat of chicken too are frog legs. Horse meat is sweet, dog steaks flat. Rat and cat are little different from tame rabbit. Snails fried alive in butter have a quaint taste, are tough to chew. Human flesh is sweet. Toasted grasshoppers have a nutty flavor. Earthworms, washed clean and gently stewed, have a tangy tartness...