Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main articles of furniture are the icebox and the telephone. . . . The main meal is held in the middle of the night in the kitchen, and consists of a glass of milk and cold chicken from the icebox. . . . The fauna of America consists mainly of the horse and the cairn terrier; now and then the discerning eye may detect, in the distance, a stampede of cows. The flora is largely confined to the orchid and the long-stemmed rose. The rose is a peculiarly interesting variety, having extraordinary lasting qualities and no thorns...
...Hamburg, well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
...Rittner, caught driving without a license, wrote to the court to explain that she neglected to renew her old one, "owing to the following duties: nursing an invalid son and a daughter, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping, queuing, and also grappling with ration books, children's emergency cards, priority milk cards, bread units, laundry, chimney sweeps, window cleaners, all preliminary arrangements prior to moving to a new house, moving to new house, and all necessary preparations for the birth of my fourth child next month...
Working with some unusual accessories (including canary birds, guppies and nervous women), Inventor S. Young White is digging into a complex study called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, Inventor White described one of his gadgets: a sound-maker no bigger than a milk bottle. The White siren can generate: 1) "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire; 2) audible sounds so loud that they knock strong men (including Mr. White) silly for five minutes...
Whether they were cream or evaporated milk, Author Putnam is the first ex-expatriate to bottle them all together. Putnam is no more successful than most other Parisophiles in explaining just what it was that made his wife burst into tears on her first glimpse of the Tuileries, or that mists the eyes of those who merely recall the image of a Parisian pissoir. But he does show the variety of attractions that Paris offered to youthful intellectuals in the years following World...