Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reception house of the Soviet Central Executive Committee. This, Mr. Bullitt said, will do, temporarily, but he decided that in Moscow the U. S. should follow the example of France and build an embassy. Pure water the Ambassador hoped to get by sinking artesian wells. Pure milk for Anne and other Embassy children he felt should come from imported U. S. cows. The Embassy, if Congress proves willing, will be pure colonial in style, with a good chance that patriots will start a fund to fill it with such sturdy colonial reproductions as Mrs. Roosevelt's craftsmen make...
...high percentage of spontaneous cures excites him to sarcasm: "That is why it is possible to convince the public that practically any preparation is of value for the prevention or treatment of colds. In fact, some of the comments that were made by persons who had received only lactose [milk-sugar] tablets would serve admirably as testimonials concerning the value of these tablets for the treatment of colds." No better, according to his experience, are aspirin, aspirin-acetphenetidin-caffeine combinations, or alkalization with bicarbonate of soda...
...kind of Christmas that means extra comforts and luxuries; but just the supplying of the moat desperate wants of the most needy and helpless people on the face of the earth. A warm blanket for a grandmother shaking with cold and fever ($2); sandals for bleeding feet (50?); milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines ($5 a year) so that those just developing the dreaded malady may never reach the hopeless mutilated stage...
...threw down his milk bucket and went to Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
...oldtime Equalization Fee advocate, he had persistently argued that the solution of the farm problem lay not in a vicious thwarting of Nature but in increasing markets, in plugging world markets. He had opposed unduly rigid restrictions on packers and their profits. He had put through the "unsatisfactory" milk marketing agreements. To Mr. Peek the Secretary's remarks were a slap in the face, and though Mr. Wallace delivered the slap, the author of the slap was Braintruster Rexford G. Tugwell...