Word: milking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan milliners, after years of trying to make the American woman look like a helicopter after a crash landing, finally did it. Observers at autumn style shows came away feeling top-heavy. Some hats looked like dishpans swathed in varicolored mosquito netting, others like sour-milk hotcakes. Most of them were as big as barrelheads. It seemed almost certain that by spring U.S. women would have neck muscles like Jim Londos...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...
Small but Healthy. A British team headed by Cambridge University's Nutrition Expert R. A. McCance had made a searching study of some typical children in the British zone of Germany. The youngsters, living on a subnormal diet of cereals and vegetables, with almost no meat or milk, were shockingly small for their ages. But they seemed to be in excellent health. They were remarkably free from disease, showed no sign of rickets or vitamin deficiencies, played games as hard and spiritedly as U.S. children. The investigators concluded that the youngsters had adjusted to the reduced diet by developing...
Mormonism is changing with the rest of the world. But few institutions and few peoples have succeeded as well in stamping out their own destiny and in shaping the times in which they lived. After a hundred years there is milk and honey in the land of the honeybee. There are many great monuments: green, irrigated valleys, temples, cities, and that never-to-be-forgotten reminder of Mormon faith and courage, the faint marks of the old Mormon trail...
...thought that bread might be a good thing to build up his strength. Not store bread, but old-fashioned homemade bread. Mrs. Rudkin got out a bread recipe left by her grandmother. It called for flour to be milled by stone in the old-style way, quantities of whole milk and butter. So Mrs. Rudkin rolled up her sleeves, ground some wheat into flour in a coffee mill and baked bread in her kitchen...