Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...control the weight of the body by diet and exercise, it is an everyday observation that some persons grow fat while eating relatively small amounts of food and apparently without relation to the amount of exercise they take. Others remain slender while consuming large quantities of candy, cream, milk, butter. Scientists are convinced that the body build is controlled to a considerable extent by heredity and other factors, such as some governing influence in the cells...
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...