Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more Italian peasants seemed to be out of luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...begins the day at 8 o'clock, digesting thoroughly the daily papers. Breakfast is a political meeting, with the cartoonist, his wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
Purred he at a dinner given for appeasing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax by London's ultra-Tory 1900 Club: Lord Halifax "is an Englishman, a fox hunter and a friend." For the Government's present policies he now wanted nothing so much as "a united Party, a united Nation and a united Empire." He even did a little appeasing himself. "Not a single element representative of the British nation," said he, "would support for a moment designs against the peace and safety of the Reich and its legitimate prospects of growth and expansion...
...street-fighting made him Deputy-gauleiter of Danzig and President of the Senate in 1934, a year after the Nazis had gained control of the Danzig Government. Nazi Greiser prefers autonomy for Danzig to actual annexation by Germany, but when the time comes he won't have much to say about...
...There is no standard diet to fit all ages and classes. A hard-working farmer or laborer needs an abundance of fuel foods such as bread, potatoes and meat. A growing child needs almost twice as much food as his sedentary father. A Southerner needs less starch, sugar and fat than a Northerner. A desk-bound businessman needs practically no white bread, potatoes, cakes and pies. But for health and longevity, eaters of all ages and classes must tuck in one quart of milk every day, a variety of vegetables, fruits, fresh red meat, fish, and eggs several times...