Word: cornbread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers were prepared for semi-starvation by three months' good eating with a daily average of 3,492*calories. Then for six months they were fed two carefully rationed meals a day totaling 1,570 calories. Sample meals: pancakes, syrup, applesauce, cornbread and jam in the morning; potato soup, stew and potatoes in the evening...
...rumor. For years, the stout, fast-color flour sack, paisley, checked, flowered or striped, had been as important as its contents. Mothers had turned the sacks into housedresses, children's playsuits, shorts, curtains, bedspreads and towels. Cried one Red Oak, Ga., wife: "We can live on crackers and cornbread if we have to. But we can't send our children to school naked...
...Lukas Foss's music is far from Sandburg's prairie: it is modern, glittering, sophisticated, plainly rooted in Europe. Critics were somewhat baffled last week by the cantata which mixed Foss champagne with Sandburg cornbread, but gently pronounced Composer Foss a promising young...
...desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and dinners of fried chicken or steak, great slices of cold tomatoes and sliced Bermuda onions, cornbread and homemade jelly, and homemade ice cream cranked out in an old-fashioned freezer by Bobby, the colored cook. The steaks are from Rayburn cattle, straight from the frozen-food locker in Bonham...
...freshman class, Gideon finds Peony Jackson. He daydreams about her "shining in a chemise." She marries him. Gideon becomes editor of Rural Adult Education in Des Moines, learns to write reverently of "mothers, duck hunting, the Y.M.C.A., the Salvation Army, the Catholic Church, Rabbi Wise, the American flag, cornbread, Robert E. Lee, carburetors and children up to the age of eleven." As a lecturer, he learns to tell the lady on his right that the movies are a pernicious influence on the young, and the lady on his left that the movies stimulate the youthful imagination. Successively Gideon...