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...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
Ever since Zola, writers have tried to commit to paper the daily living of average families. "Naturalism" had a notion that an account of how such a family struggles through its oatmeal, breeds another generation to do likewise, could present all human life fearlessly and whole. The result of this literary theory has been some good amateur anthropology, a titanic amount of dullness, little...
...Weller & Co., Practical Soaps). Few years later, a dandy in sideburns and tight pants, he had risen to No. 1 U. S. "soap-slinger," become partner of the soap firm of John D. Larkin in Buffalo, N. Y. His supersalesmanship made a household word of Larkin's Creme Oatmeal Soap. He invented the Club Plan, pioneered the premium method of selling (celluloid collar buttons, buttonhooks, "solid silver" spoons, the Chautauqua Lamp). But at 36 (in 1892) he suddenly sold out for $75,000, enrolled at Harvard as a special student in literature and history. Shortly thereafter he had several...
Monomark is a ludicrous egocentric who eats little but raw onions and oatmeal, is surrounded by slavish sycophants who toady to his ignorant misconceptions, abuses his distracted underlings and usually triumphs by some absurdly fortuitous accident. In 1930 Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian coronation. Waugh repaid him with a lampooning in Black Mischief. Later Lord Beaverbrook sent Waugh to cover the Ethiopian war. Waugh bladdered him again in Scoop...
...Great Powers. In most urgent terms U. S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson sent Chinese authorities a list of foodstuffs badly needed by the U. S. river gunboat Monocacy. A Chinese clerk revealed the contents of this diplomatic document: "Among other things they asked for canned asparagus and oatmeal breakfast food-almost exactly that is what we have...