Word: crust
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Parade the grounds with yellow, pie-crust suits...
...assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...
Beneath the words as, 'neath its cooled crust...
...sparingly endowed with calorific properties, and plentifully supplied, in unknown and unvisited regions, with cold milk (perchance once boiled) and, I should say, with copper-filings, and maybe a pinch or two of snuff besides. At the Thayer Club we had every day good rolls with a crisp crust; at Memorial, until recently, we have had soggy, solid rolls; and as for those now furnished, although some of them display a tendency to crispness on the under surface, the majority are unambitious of any such refinement. The brown bread at Memorial is never superior and often inferior to that...
That the coffee is cold and the rolls wholly crust...