Word: gruel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pounding with his large fist, Navy Minister Osumi boomed: "We have no intention of embarking on a naval race, but if negotiations fail we have a policy! . . The whole Japanese nation must make up its mind to cope with the situation, even if we are reduced to eating rice gruel...
...14th day the dog snapped a fly, ate its usual half-pound of liver, milk, eggs, oatmeal gruel. On the 15th Dr. Cornish said it was semiconscious, "like a thoroughly intoxicated man." That night someone left the laboratory door open and on the 16th and 17th days the dog snuffled with a head cold...
Still rationed (purchasable only on presentation of a card) are bread, flour, meat, oil, gruel, sugar and Russia's beloved butter & herring. Men's clothing was not taken off the ration list, but the ration per man per year was increased...
...Banks is introduced as a penniless Scotsman, living morally and thriftily in the garret of a bordello and studying to be an insurance actuary. Actress Helen Menken is a wan creature who faints on his doorstep. He befriends her to the extent of a bed, a portion of his gruel and the services of a doctor. The backslid daughter of a scholar, she can quote reams of the pious Carlyle, but she compares her own way of life to that of Aspasia, most successful of the Athenian courtesans. The Scotsman talks of her soul; he signs another man's name...