Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cookbook. Various writer-men* have contributed remarks. Most of the recipes, evolved by women, are dependable. The First Lady explains as follows a coffee souffle which the President allegedly enjoys: "Mix one and one-half cups coffee, one tablespoon gelatine, one-third cup granulated sugar and-one-half cup milk. "Heat in a double boiler, add yolks of three eggs slightly beaten and mix with one-third cup granulated sugar and one-fourth teaspoon salt. Cook until it thickens. "Add the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff, and one-half teaspoon vanilla. Mold, chill and serve with whipped cream...
...Leipzig, Dr. Nebert and Dr. Koch reported that they had gone from stable to stable, playing music to the cows and goats. The beasts so entertained produced more milk than usual, for milk yielding is a nervous reaction. The curious doctors then tried music on wet nurses, hired for suckling. But music had no effect on the wet nurses. They secreted a definite amount of milk, and no more. It is possible, however, that music may have a practical effect upon women who are especially susceptible...
...Last Trail (Thomas Mix). It is a relief, now and then, to sit back and consume a westerner a picture where the hero streaks across the horizon on his able, horse, waves his lasso, humiliates the suave villain, rescues a milk-fed maiden. The plot is worthless; Zane Grey wrote it. The action is great; Cowboy Mix, Horse Tony, Bloodhound Blinkerton, two careening stage coaches...
...sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive bag ? of bones. The spectacle...
...angrily, as a rule, but her words had a kind of crack like the report of a rifle." Horace was kind and patient with this woman whom he addressed as "Mother." She kept cows which "Mother says shall never be killed while she lives, because they have given milk to her children. They fall down sometimes and want to die, but Mother will not let them and keeps a man to lift them up and care for them...