Word: buttermilk
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...Anderson, S. C., Coroner J. M. Clark was asked to hold an inquest to determine what had caused the sudden demise of a blackamoor found dead after a dinner of nine cans of sardines, a bottle of buttermilk, two boxes of crackers and a plate of spareribs...
Secretary Hyde is a personal Dry whose chief beverage-is buttermilk. His favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...Moneypenny. Perhaps it was the purpose of this play that, after seeing it, one should go out among the trees, drink buttermilk, nibble roots and herbs, renounce money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue...
Tuesday. Breakfast on the train. Registered at the Willard Hotel for a morning of law conferences (the Nickel Plate merger, for the Brothers Van Sweringen of Cleveland, is in his hands). Went to the Supreme Court Chambers at the Capitol. Lunched in the Senate restaurant on pie and buttermilk. . . . Conferred with Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of aviation F. Trubee Davison, presiding officer of the Crime Commission; meeting set for next day. Called at the War Department. Secretary Davis at Cabinet meeting. Conferred with General Pershing's secretary, Captain Adamson, about Cleveland's reception for General Pershing...
...solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel engine that could run with almost any oil for fuel, even buttermilk (TIME, Sept...