Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...segregated history, had attained an astonishing civilization which was almost an exact facsimile of that from which they had been marooned in 1851. Miss Smith, an extraordinary old woman, usually drunk, had come to believe that she was herself Queen Victoria. She called her palace Balmoral. Antimacassars covered every cocoa-nut-cloth chairback. On the trees about the premises were graven such verses...
...laughing matter. It called a legislator away from a session in Congress and sent him post-haste to Cocoa, Fla. And yet his colleagues took the incident lightly...
...budget abolishes, from Aug. 1, the 33⅓% duty levied by Chancellor McKenna during the War upon foreign automobiles, films, motorcycles, clocks and musical instruments. The so-called breakfast taxes on sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, chicory are cut by one-half to one-third. The tariff on dried fruits will be dropped on Aug. 1. The inhabited house duty is to be repealed. Amusement taxes are abolished for the cheaper seats in theatres, etc., and reduced for the more expensive seats. The corporation profits tax is to be abolished...
...much could not be said of the galleries, crowded with "official ladies." There was Mrs. Coolidge in henna-colored dress and hat, with a coat of cocoa-colored velour, trimmed with fur. In another part was Mrs. Wood-row Wilson, gowned in black, with orchids at her waist. There were wives of seven or eight members of the Cabinet; also Miss Ailsa Mellon, representing her father. There was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Republican Floor Leader...
...Sunday dinner of December 2 will be known as the International Golden Rule Dinner, which means in short that every person who observes the dinner will dine that Sunday on a diet of bread, stew, and cocoa varied by some fresh vegetables, and these persons will save the difference between this frugal fare and the customary American Sunday dinner in order to give it to the Near East Relief for the benefit of the starving children of Armenia and Anatolia...