Word: milks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons would have curdled blood-or milk. The Department of Commerce was "honeycombed with politics." The country had seen "an ex-city political boss [meaning Walter F. Brown of Toledo] picked up in Ohio and made Assistant Secretary of Commerce." This man was now running the Hoover campaign in Ohio. Therefore, "the campaign of Mr. Hoover for President is being paid for to a large extent out of the Treasury of the United States...
...members of the House are such good sportsmen that, when what happened did happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never...
...touched with a forty-foot pole. The plot is like a last year's fresh egg. The captions are like nice round soup dishes full of soup. The girl (Billie Dove) is like a seven-course dinner in which each course is a can of condensed milk...
...Albania, a model school was set up, and a farm carried on. Schneider reported that cheering and enrourage a barn before. In this atmosphere the Albania livestock had greatly disintegrated, so that any one of the cows brought from America gives as much milk as any live of the Albanian cows, according to Schneider...
Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...