Word: honey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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McCann pleads for the use of natural sugars, such as honey, as the best dietetic aid to forestall diabetes. It is the artificial confections and syrups of civiliged life that are raising the diabetes rate, he says...
...Post Office Department has forbidden the importation of foreign honey bees, owing to the infection of some with a serious disease known as the Isle of Wight malady...
...largest crowd that ever saw a schoolboy baseball game (40,000) crammed its way into the Polo Grounds, New York, to see George Washington High School win for the second year in succession the inter-city championship from Lindblom School, Chicago, 4-3. "Honey" Baker, George Washington captain and third baseman, whose two hits won the game, signed to play with the New York Yankees after the game...
...Germany a new method has been developed of sending kisses by mail. A mixture of honey, gum arabic and cochineal is smeared on the lips and their impression left on the letter...
Then, of course, the adherents of each party have their own peculiar tastes. Captain Achmed Abdullah has a breakfast, described as "a dignified, almost pontifical institution", consisting of "always fruit always eggs, always three cups of coffee, and always marmalade, honey or jam", while Jaseha Heifetz asks merely for quality not "always" successfully. Two cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp...