Word: rice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest aeronautical event of the year, the National Air Races. The fathers had selected a tract of land called Model Farms, four feet below the level of the Delaware River on the southwest edge of town. Last week pilots and spectators concluded that it was a model farm for rice-growing only...
...Four slices of bread, boiled rice, tomato salad, strawberry shortcake, a pint of vanilla ice cream and raspberry soda...
...thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...
...safe to steal some of their mother's rice-powder? Mrs. Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving...
...Coffin had Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. (1862-) and Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923) as his technicians. (He could not keep Samuel Insull as sales agent.) Himself he devoted to inducing industry to use electricity for power...