Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...styled "K.M.'s," "which in my opinion is going to be one of the best candy sellers in the country." Of cheeses he said: "The new Ancre cheese, a combination of cream cheese and Roquefort, also is a long-keeping article, whereas heretofore it was put up in tin foil packages and perishable. The five-ounce grated cheese is comparatively new and has made a place for itself, with sales constantly increasing...
Another week of commencements-frolicking reunions, young people putting diplomas into trunks or tin tubes with varying reverence, older people wondering whether to put honorary degrees into picture frames...
Herr Editor Richard Dominick of the Dresden Socialist news organ Meissener Volksstimme, was placed on trial last week, charged with "insulting the armed forces of the Fatherland," because he printed last year an editorial censuring the "militaristic" practice of permitting children to play with tin soldiers...
Villagers of Manuden, England, gathered on the lawn of the vicarage of the Rev. Harry B. Grin-die, 70, on his wedding night. They beat tin pans, iron kettles, garbage cans, etc. They honked horns. In short, they gave Vicar Grindle an old-fashioned "tin kettling"-to remind him that they thought he had violated an unwritten...
...foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige of her Nilotic lure and intellectuality...