Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, sloe-eyed Italian children competed in a baby show. Some were knock-kneed, some astigmatic, round-shouldered, swivel-hocked, unduly thin; some spilled their milk with mild equability, as if a saucepan in their stomachs were softly frothing over. But well-nigh perfect was Anthony Chieco. He was fat. He was serene. "What do you feed him on?" doctors asked the mother. "Spaghetti," shrugged enormous Mrs. Chieco. "He eats moocha spaghetti, and he drinks da vino- wine. Madre di Dio, he drinks it, oouf! like ees water...
People are prone to think of scientists as coldblooded, ruthlessly matter-of-fact beings, possessing the milk of human kindness in amounts inversely proportionate to the extent of their knowledge. The October issue of The Scientific Monthly contains two bits of evidence. In a highly technical account of the state of knowledge of the genes (constituent parts of sex cell chromosomes, which are believed to determine an organism's inherited characteristics), Dr. Walter L. Treadway of the U. S. Public Health Service paused to say: "In none of the experiments discussed in this article have the animals been given...
...Liberty motors with improvised equipment, and the readiness of all the men to fly over Ellesmere Land "where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...
...Whereas by Law 9th of Chap. 6 it is provided, that there shall always be Chocolate, Tea, Coffee, and Milk, for breakfast, with Bread, or Biscuit, and Butter, and whereas the foreign Articles above mentioned are now not to be procured without great difficulty, and at a very exorbitant Price; therefore that the Charge of Commons may be kept as low as possible...
...Voted, That the Steward shall provide at the common Charge only Bread, or Biscuit, and Milk for Breakfast; and if any of the Scholars choose Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate for Breakfast, they shall procure those articles for themselves, and where's the Sugar and Butter to be used with them; and if any of the Scholars choose to have their Milk boiled, or thickened with Flour if it may be had, or with meal, the Showard, having seasonable notice, shall provide it accordingly. And rather, as Salt-Fish alone is, but the afores'd Law appointed for the Dinner...