Word: oatmeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specifically mentioned were detained only 24 hours; that bread and water is only meted out to those who assault their fellow immigrants (a Negro was the only one so treated for several weeks); that the menu on the day the two women were at Ellis Island consisted of: prunes, oatmeal with milk, bread, butter and coffee (for breakfast); bean soup, potted beef with vegetables and rice pudding (for dinner); macaroni with tomato sauce, blackberry jelly with tea, coffee or milk (for supper); in addition graham crackers and milk three times a day; that the amount of food served was unlimited...
...George T. Harding, the President's father: "I celebrated my 79th birthday by hitching up my sorrel mare and driving to the offices of The Marion Star, where I received congratulations. Later I gave my receipt for good health: 'Eat rye bread and oatmeal; they keep the arteries clean.' From my distinguished son I received a sum of money...
...bread and oatmeal. They keep the arteries clean...
...chief magistrate of Boston, this time alone, spent the night incognito among the dwellers of his capital. As "No. 69" he slept at the Wayfarer's Lodge, and with 75 other "down-and-outers" chopped wood from five 'till nine in order to earn his breakfast of oatmeal, bread and coffee. "And they came to a fair garden all set about with trees, wherein was a fountain and in the midst whereof there stood a pavilion--" relates the Book of the Thousand and One Nights. Something rather different must have greeted the Mayor for he has since recommended the expenditure...