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Word: porkless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1918-1918
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After January 12, Saturday is to be a porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PORK AND BEANS | 1/7/1918 | See Source »

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