Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been directed toward making Italy more self-sufficient, Guarneri noted that these will now reduce the effectiveness of sanctions. "I might paraphrase Marie Antoinette," said he with a wry smile. "The Queen's notion was that if the people could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice...
...misguided pieces of legislation this country has ever seen, the Teachers' Oath Bill takes the cake. Now let there be no mistake. The bill is law, and as such must be obeyed. Never will Harvard set the precedent for disrespect or violation of any legal statute that remains in force But every group in Harvard, every individual, is entitled, for the good of the State and the country at large, to make it quite apparent what the supposedly most intelligent sector of public opinion feels about the Massachusetts...
...last week some passers-by saw Uncle Sam "dancing in convulsions." When Elmer Kenerson, now 71, arrived, the eagle was dead. A piece of cake lay beside it. An autopsy was ordered to see if the eagle had been poisoned. When it was over, the physician reported that Uncle Sam had undoubtedly been poisoned but New London officials refused to press the investigation. Keeper Kenerson buried his eagle beneath the cage and had a small tombstone made, inscribed: UNCLE SAM GOLDEN EAGLE
Rapturous Japanese businessmen snatched at copies of Nichi Nichi last week to read an analysis showing that war between Italy and Ethiopia would help practically every Japanese industry except wheat and possibly chemicals. Biggest slices of cake would go to shipping, heavy industry, steel, rayon...
Japanese businessmen's naive delight over an Occidental War was perfectly natural. The World War was, to Japan alone among major belligerents, just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from...