Word: saucers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea of Shredded Wheat was first conceived. At that time (1893) one Henry D. Perky, a dyspeptic lawyer, was trying a lawsuit in a small Nebraska town. Breakfasting one morning at the community's only hotel, Lawyer Perky noticed a fellow breakfaster eating what looked like a saucer of whole wheat grain. He would take a large spoon and break up the cooked whole wheat, add milk and cream, and consume. Curious, Lawyer Perky asked questions...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
Striding into the restaurant La Bombilla, General Zertuche proceeded to reconstruct the crime. By his stern order not so much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...
...handsome Italian with two locks of curly hair sticking out over his forehead like horns, Belloni until the final sprint had threatened to beat Georgetti. So had Letourner and Brocardo, two small, nervy French boys. On the fifth night Brocardo fell four times, skidded down the wall of the saucer, strapped to his pedals. The third time he was knocked unconscious. In fifteen minutes he got up and rode again. McNamara, "Iron Man," was booed all through the race. Brocco, 43-year old champion trying to come back, pedaled till his rheumatic legs stiffened like hooks, forcing...
...York, England, the dean and the chapter of York Minster waited to receive a local goldsmith. The smith appeared, bearing with him a paten and chalice whose magnificence made the clergy cry out with surprise. The paten (saucer), shown to the public for the first time last week, was of silver and gilt, charmingly wrought; the chalice (goblet) bore a 32 carat diamond, gift, stated the smith, of a Mrs. Howe, lately deceased. Years ago she had ridden horses bareback in a U. S. circus. And, like many another circus performer, she possessed a piety which the manner...