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Patriotically, they noted that in time of war the U. S. could squeeze its own dough, ooze it through its own long, skinny tubes, hang it up in its own drying-rooms, economically independent of macaroni-mad Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conventions | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Cantor mentioned his tour abroad. "London--blah!--terribly expensive. A clerk shakes you out in the Savoy every morning to get your dough. In Paris you don't mind getting gypped, you expect it. I think gay Paree in toto reminds one of a woman trying to be naughty-naughty--it certainly succeeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eddie Cantor Recalls Halcyon Harvard-Yale Celebration When He Caught Pigskin Booted by George Owen '23 | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

Also he said: "We [of the Mississippi Valley] produce the crops and have the people but New York and the East get all the 'dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thompson s Crusade | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop in his native Germany, sprinted doggedly, passed George Young. A little further and cramps twisted Young's stomach muscles, and the first favorite was hauled from the swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ontario Swim | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Anthony's Hospital last week, surgeons lifted his flabbiness as it spread, like a batter of yeasted dough, over his hips and thighs. Then they cut* ?two curving slashes to form an ellipsis almost three feet long horizontally across his abdomen. This released a section of skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apron | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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