Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mary Louise Cecilia ("Texas") Guinan, fiftyish, famed night club hostess; after an operation for ulcerated colitis; in Vancouver, B. C. Born on a potato ranch near Waco, Tex., she left a girls' school to become a rodeo performer, appeared in early western films as ''The Female Bill Hart." In Manhattan, she caught step with the tempo of the Prohibition-Prosperity era, found she could pack her gaudy hotspots by treating her customers with brassy insolence. She had a battalion of attorneys to keep her out of jail for prohibition offenses. Her star waned with the dawn...
...months in the front. But Dollfuss earned distinction by winning the "Verdienstkreuz," Cross of Merit, a decoration given to subalterns for outstanding deeds of valor only. . . . As an Austrian, I had yet to hear of an Austrian's breakfast consisting, of all things, "of a bowl of potato soup with whipped cream." If Kanzler Dollfuss prefers this kind of morning repast, his taste is unique and, therefore, news. But is TIME sure of its potatoes? . . . TIME generalizes, as it is sometimes wont to do, as to "limp handshake of most Austrians." Let me assure TIME that limply shaking hands...
TIME did not mean to imply that the potato soup & whipped cream with which Chancellor Dollfuss bulwarked himself after a night of fasting & prayer was his usual breakfast. It is his favorite dish. On milder mornings he takes a standard Wiener Frühstück-coffee with whipped cream, crescent rolls (Kipfel), jam, one boiled egg.-ED. Ethical Bacardi Sirs...
...kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas called on 39-year-old Engelbert Dollfuss to form a Government. He gave no answer, but went to his favorite church and spent the entire night in prayer. In the morning he went home, bathed, shaved, ate a steaming bowl of his favorite potato soup with whipped cream, and accepted...
...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...