Word: onions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teatro Colon is no ordinary South-American opera house, such a dirty and pretentious little place as is to be found in almost every town, full of onion-eating opera lovers gazing at tenors who yodel and choke. El Teatro Colon is an enormous building of marble and white cement, facing a palmed piazza. In it there is room for 3,500 people to sit; these all come invariably in evening dress...
...mortgage was being foreclosed on a broken-down Indiana onion farm which President Coolidge was given "for an unrendered service to agriculture." There were bills to be signed-$6,792,000 for Army Housing, $125,000,000 for new Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold...
...trip to Bermuda which he had promised himself for a long time, in fact ever since the muddy slush in the holes of Massachusetts Avenue began to get on his nerves and in his shoes. But even the in-elemency of New England weather, and his interest in the onion and Easter lily crop in Bermuda--which is doing nicely, thank you--could not keep him from what he considered a duty as well as a pleasure. For man does not live by--but we all know that story...
...business or- ganization of the government, headed by Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From one Luke W. Duffey, President Coolidge received gratis the deed to a 176-acre onion farm in Pulaski County, Ind. Taxes and mortgage interest were due. Donor Duffey explained that he had found it impossible to farm at a profit under present conditions and advised the new owner to exercise extreme efficiency or he would get deeper into debt...
...Scottish pudding. Recipe: mince & season the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys etc. of a sheep or calf: put in suet, onion, oatmeal, blood; wrap and tie the mixture in the animal's stomach; boil...