Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet cities the State zagged by taking off the ration list Russia's beloved tea & cigarets, also milk, eggs, cheese, canned goods (except canned meat), candy, soap and knitted goods...
...British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway fare to go to work. From the vulgar Mirror Reporter Klein went to the patrician Evening Post where in the next four years his by-line became so familiar that in 1929 the American Press (trade-paper) thought it worthwhile...
...twelve-year experience as a star newspaper correspondent, during which he has covered every major assignment in Europe, attended every Peace on Reparations conference, red-bearded Britisher Slocombe has distilled a modern political romance that will intoxicate readers accustomed to drinking Dumas with their mother's milk. The book is a thinly disguised, none too complimentary adumbration of Dictator Mussolini...
...Zato) is born their first child, a male whom they name Tikki. Lily begins to find captivity bearable, but Bobby wants to hold the baby too. When he gets hold of him he will not let him go, plays with him until he begins to starve for mother's milk. Only after Bobby has been drugged with bananas loaded with veronal can Tikki be taken from him. When he awakens Bobby realizes his drugged in dignity; no more bananas, no more of any of Man's food for him. Slowly, reproach fully he starves to death...
...contrast to that under way in Lowell House to establish "bowling on the green"; the latter is an essentially English game, and the equipment for it costs over $50. The horse shoes for the games at Winthrop House were obtained only when a House member pursued a horse-drawn milk wagon, to a smithy in East Boston in the early morning...