Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Herbert Hoover, who went home only once in four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year...
...this week the Dionne quintuplets were three months old. All of them were ready to change their diet from "mother's milk," shipped from Montreal and Toronto, to modified cow's milk. Only Emilie and Marie, the two smallest, remained in incubators. All five totaled 31 Ib. 8-oz., more than three times the 10 Ib. ½-oz. of their first official weight. Almost finished was the special house, opposite the Dionne homestead, in which they will spend their first icy winter as guests of the Canadian Government...
...American Radio Co. on the fourth day sent a check for the full 13,000 pesos ($3,621), applied for receivership. The Red Cross fed grapes and milk to the prostrate strikers. Four who disobeyed orders and ate sandwiches grew violently ill. Senor Ramon Perez announced a new mass hunger strike record of 106 hours, added that he had established Mexico City's individual record with 104 sleepless. foodless hours at the microphone. History's longest continuous broadcast thus came...
...secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded to give that department a thoroughgoing tongue-lashing in public. When he found that his British discovery, Henry Wilcoxon, was losing 4 lb. a day carrying his 110 lb. of armor, he made him drink two quarts of milk daily at lunch. DeMille offered his adopted daughter Katherine a part in the picture. She refused. He imported his niece Agnes from England to dance on the bull. Even more frightened of her uncle than of the bull, she walked...
...Moines Register & Tribune's able Farm Editor J. S. Russell estimated that Iowa's hog income would be as great as last year's, excluding $70,000,000 to be paid by the AAA for pigs & corn that were not raised. Forecasts of income from cattle, chickens, eggs and milk were bullish...