Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Honorable Great Lady, thus bedight, partook with her additional 300 ladies-in-waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
...Golden Gate Park Zoo, San Francisco, one Percy Hayes, 17, visitor from Stockton, Calif., ignored the warning signs on the cinnamon bear cage and poked his face up to the bars better to watch the beasts eat the lump sugar that he was tossing them. One bear nabbed the boy and inquisitively pawed his face. Two dirty claws pierced his eyes...
...ports, one's profits on butter-stamps, axes, ballads, candles, sermons, maple sugar, hats, horse liniment and soft soap, could be put into indigo, poplin, clocks, Bibles, Jews-harps, carriages, beads. One swapped for a horse and, if one's reputation permitted, peddled home again to dazzle the village with a city wardrobe and watch-chain...
...athletes, an attempt was made to investigate the nature of various injuries which heretofore have been obscure. At the present time, very interesting information and gratifying results, as far as treatment is concerned have been obtained regarding sprained ankles. During the fall and winter, a considerable investigation of the sugar content of the blood before and after competition was done. In all, about 500 blood analyses were made. At the same time, an investigation along X-ray lines of the hearts of track men was started but has not yet been completed...
Meanwhile in the Philippine Supreme Court, the Governor General's fight for the control of the failing Philippine National Bank continued. Year by year, since its organization in 1916, its loans to sugar planters and mills have increased; now, its losses total $40,000,000. General Wood feels that under new control it may prosper...