Word: milks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor once persisted that Harvard oarsmen likewise delighted in an afternoon cup. The origin of the English love for tea is said to have been associated with the enclosure of the commons. With the loss of common rights went the ability to keep a family cow; and when milk was denied him the Englishman turned to tea. Be that as it may; the addition to tea does seem the distinguishing mark of the Englishman, just as the red strand once identified all the cordage of the Royal Navy...
...Although knowledge of mythological gods is required by many universities for graduation, no knowledge of the Christian God is demanded. Animal philosophy has even spread to the modern dance. It has become nothing but a hugging match. The old dancing of fifty years ago compares to modern dancing as milk does to hypochloric acid...
...coming generation but it actually swindles the confiding children most shamefully. In its intended form, it is naturally unfair,--but when the dealers tamper with the works, and remove the most favorable chances altogether, it becomes worse than selling street-cars to immigrants. That most-reviled deed--taking milk from babies--becomes almost benevolent by contrast...
...hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much complaint about the quality of the food and cookery," and in 1791 it is reported by another chronicler that "diluted milk" was served, and that students desirous of postponing the examinations of the following day, "put a tartar emetic in the coffee boilers." It is quite evident that there have been grounds for complaint throughout the centuries, and that the cafeteria is not, in the end, such a come down...
Rising at 6:30 every morning, the Pope says mass in his private chapel before breakfast, which is at 8. Breakfast consists of coffee with milk, bread, butter. The mail is brought in, is divided among seven secretaries...