Word: honey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jack Osterman, 37, famed ad-libbing, ad-bibbing comedian, called "The Banter King of Broadway"; of pneumonia; in Atlantic City. Once accosted by a Broadway trull with the traditional: "What are you doing tonight, honey?" cat-witted Osterman sighed: "I'm making a Gaumont film. Thank God somebody asked...
...Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note...
Harvard's Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...
...greater scene. The Dust Storms have pushed them along with countless thousands like them from their land of which they were so proud just because it was theirs and because it was solid and dependable. Bewildered, they drag themselves in droves to California, the land of milk and honey; their faith necessary to carry on is built on expectation of a Promised Land, where they will live in "little white houses in among the orange trees." On the road some die and some wander off. Then, once in California, they become undeceived. The third of a million new arrivals...
...editorial "Land of Milk and Honey" in the Crimson of March 1 contains many statements to which a careful student of the Palestine problem must take exception. The conclusion that the British plan for an independent Arab-controlled Palestine is the only feasible solution of the problem is derived from untenable assumptions and misstatements of fact...