Word: canning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make matters worse, more bungling in rationing is allowing over half of this year's sugar to be used up in the first six months of 1945, and before the big demand for summer canning...
John H. Casey, Jr--Angela Canning (Providence...
...night of Jan. 1, 1753, Elizabeth Canning, 18, a shy, yellow-haired London servant girl, said good night to her aunt at the foot of Houndsditch Road and set out for the home of her master, an elderly carpenter who lived near Bedlam Hospital. She was dressed in her holiday best, a purple gown shot with yellow, black quilted petticoat, blue stockings with red clocks, her waist was girded by a pair of ten-shilling stays. No one who knew her ever saw her in that costume again...
Pamphlets and treatises poured from the printers. Dubious facts in her story were endlessly recalled and debated. Justice Henry Fielding (author of Tom Jones and presiding justice at Bet's first hearing) wrote passionately: "Elizabeth Canning is a poor, honest, innocent, simple soul, and the most unhappy and most injured of all human beings...
Some hinted that Bet Canning was wrote...