Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most remarkable, though less authentic, is the refusal of the infant St. Nicholas to take his milk on Fridays, though the palm must be awarded to St. John the Evangelist whose pre-natal obeisance to Christ is a commonplace of medieval legendry...
...director in many another famed company. Brought up in a strict Chicago family, Mr. Andrews began work at 19 in the brokerage business and soon owned a company dealing in bank stocks and unlisted securities. Since then, he has financed (in some cases single-handed): a seal-top for milk bottles (Standard Cap & Seal); the Dictograph; the acousticon; Budd all-steel automobile bodies; Trans-Lux ticker. In all of these he remains the largest stockholder. He is also largest individual stockholder in Hup Motors...
...like him. A month ago he wanted some livestock for his dominion. Last week some of the cor respondence which occurred during the transaction was made known. Said the Governor of the Virgin Islands to the Chief of Naval Operations : WOULD BE GLAD TO HAVE FOR ST. CROIX ONE MILKING SHORT HORN BULL OLD ENOUGH FOR SERVICE AT EXPERIMENT STATION. . . . ONE HOLSTEIN BULL MILKING STRAIN, TWELVE SINGLE COMB WHITE HENS OR PULLETS AND TWO SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. HOGS NOT NEEDED. Replied the Chief of Naval Operation to the Governor of the Virgin Islands: NAVY DEPARTMENT IS HAVING DIFFICULTY...
...candidates set out promptly for Tokyo, since Imperial wet nurses, by tradition, must be Kanto women. Physicians attached to the Imperial Household Ministry began a thoroughgoing medical examination of hundreds of applicants which will continue for at least a month. Conscientious internes cranked and cranked at whirring centrifugal milk-testing machines. Zealous investigators checked the social status of each applicant lest some highborn peeress or ambitious bourgeoise sneak in. For by immemorial custom the two wet nurses assigned to each newborn child of the Son of Heaven, the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, must be of peasant status. At these two symbolic...
...days later, the price of milk was lowered 1? per quart in New York City...