Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butter and Sleet
...bread & butter note was penned, last week, by the slightly rheumatic hand of His Majesty George V, King-Emperor, Defender of the Faith...
Therefore the Royal & Imperial bread was publicly spread extra thick, last week, with the best butter: "... very enjoyable stay . . . the Queen and I have appreciated the loyal and enthusiastic reception . . . the true English welcome which we will never forget . . . accorded us by the people of Nottinghamshire...
...scum of the country. I did not have a single hour's exercise all the time, nor a single change of underclothing for over five months. Although I had pneumonia and Stanley West, my companion, was even worse off, we were given only bread and a piece of butter the size of a quarter, and a can of green tea holding about a cupful each day. For that the prison commissioners get $1.50 a day per head...
...Publishers. Publishing is now the smart profession for college youths who fancy neither the drabness of bonds nor the toil of butter-and-eggs. But some of them find a good deal of both in the smart profession, and become good publishers. Two men who have survived enough of the toil to start their own concern (with the publication of Diversey), are Thomas Coward and James McCann. The former, nine years out of Yale College, has worked with The Yale University Press and Bobbs-Merrill Co., was National Squash champion in 1922. The latter, up-from-office-boy at Doubleday...