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...literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress of earning bread and butter, the attention aroused by their announcement suggests that some-other motive besides personal gain is effective as a stimulus to creative energy...
...realize that the Church depends upon Capital for its support and not upon contributions from the workers. Some churches, it is true, carry on a superficial welfare work, but they do almost nothing to interest themselves vitally in wages, working conditions and occupational problems that mean bread and butter and life and death to the worker and his family...
Rising at 6:30 every morning, the Pope says mass in his private chapel before breakfast, which is at 8. Breakfast consists of coffee with milk, bread, butter. The mail is brought in, is divided among seven secretaries...
George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...
...Babbitt wants to go to the theatre, particularly through those long evenings when Mr. Babbitt is at butter-and-egg meetings. Therefore she scans curiously the advertisements, discovers critical excerpts culled by the press agents designed to prove that every production in town contains superlative entertainment. She gives up and consults the hotel elevator...