Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fabulous performance prompted even his bitter enemy, Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, to recite the story of how "Ed" Kelly, son of Fireman "Steve" Kelly, was born blind; how he gained his sight at the age of 18 months when his mother washed his eyes with her own milk; how he became a newsboy at 9, an office boy at 12, a day laborer at 17. The New York Times, a thousand miles away, was prompted to print such a eulogy as it seldom accords even a great statesman. And Franklin Roosevelt, landing in Florida, was prompted...
...share cropper's family by the plantation owner. Houses are worse than poultry houses on well-kept farms. A family showed me relief which it was told must last for 30 days- there were seven in that family. Its stores consisted of 8 cans of evaporated milk, 5 cans of processed beef, one 24-lb. bag of flour, one 24-lb. bag of meal and a paper package of nondescript meat, weighing perhaps two or three pounds. This family-white, by the way-had just been dumped down by the side of a country highway, because a father...
...upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...Sour milk, grisly meat, and bounceable eggs, mentioned in the Lowell report, are absolutely inexcusable and more than sufficient to spoil and otherwise edible meal. Other objections, of somewhat wider application, may be noted...
...their disposal. There are, also, for the use of House members a pool table, a ping pong table and a music room, with a small but growing library of records. The grill situated in the basement is open from noon to midnight, and serves anything from a glass of milk to a full course dinner, the charge for which goes on the term-bills...