Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same...
...produced two grooms-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, an extra equerry to King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that...
...turnabout was decisive. Moreover it was achieved on operations averaging only 27.5% of capacity. For July Steel's operations were estimated by Chairman Myron C. Taylor at 53% of capacity-a rate which if maintained ought to bring U. S. Steel quickly into a land of milk & honey.* That these figures represented not only the fortunes of U. S. Steel but of a big part of the steel industry was shown two days later when Bethlehem Steel reported its deficit cut from $5,769,000 to $3,312,000 in the last three months...
...last week the Milwaukee Zoo guards heard people yelling near the bear den. A big polar bear was wrestling with a little black bear, holding it under water for longer & longer stretches. After a while, with some honey, the guards got the polar bear to stop playing. By that time the little black bear was drowned...
Untouchable boys brought honey, other optimistic friends brought other fast-breaking foods to Mahatma Gandhi as he, amazingly well, entered the last week of his 21-day fast...