Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed the mountains of Cumberland and relished "the monotony of sweet mountain mutton and 'Mr. Pendlebury's Pudding' (known to us as 'Pendlebags'), a delicious compound of farm milk, tapioca and raisins...
Discouraging Pots. Even more discouraging were pots & pans (favorite collectors' items despite the sharp, post-V-E-day cut in meat, milk, bacon, fats and sugar rations).* In Petticoat Lane is one of the best places to find kitchenware, hairpins and hair-curlers, a small enamel dishpan costs about...
...money spent on this war since 1934 was distributed equally to all the people of the world, every man, woman and child (over two billion people in the world) would receive more than $500." At this rate, every Hottentot could have had 3,000 quarts of grade A milk...
...heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess, was "on the plane with Shakespeare and Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them to give the name Lizzie to an offspring of their prizewinning cow at the World's Fair). Woollcott believed that Harpo Marx had the makings of a great poet, and the silent Harpo obliged with one dry couplet...
While the Nazis were systematically starving their captives. Allied chemists perfected a special restorative food for humans who are so starved that they cannot digest ordinary fare. The food, of powdered amino acids, is made from milk, meat, eggs, beans and fish, and is called protein hydrolysate. It may be taken in solution either by mouth or by vein. A six-ton shipment, made in the U.S., was on the way to The Netherlands last week...