Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University, 289 years ago, a meal of baked beans and fish cakes was served in the university Commons. The undergraduate body- "two nephews of the president and the professor's son"- complained bitterly about the fish cakes. They added that the butter was bad. For many years thereafter, good wholesome fare was served in Commons, at the sight of which Harvard students laid down their table implements; sweet dairy butter was passed at which they bit their thumbs. Things reached a crisis about the butter, in colonial days, when a "Butter Rebellion" was organized, and Harvard funny...
Elephants, those kingly beasts, get their buns. But there is a rhyme in this book about a King who had a hard time getting so much as a piece of butter for the royal slice of bread. He asked the Queen to tell the Dairymaid to tell the Alderney to be sure to make some butter...
...Alderney was obedient and made lots of butter. But a certain lady in another rhyme was not obedient. It is sad, the story about...
Childs-the string of 108 restaurants which stretches across the country from Manhattan to San Francisco-recently boasted about its million-dollar maison at Coney Island, built of "rare marbles and mosaics." The Bulletin became bitter, accused Childs of charging the public more for its bread, butter, toast, coffee, beans, ham-and-eggs than most other restaurants...
There were no ill effects from this first contest of the year although the teams went at it hot and heavy for the full twenty minutes. Attention was directed principally toward lineplaying; straight, old fashioned rushes which gave the new tackles, Joss and Butter-worth, and the guard. Eckart and Coone, plenty to think about...