Word: wafers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nein!" thundered the green-police. To them the portly wafer teemed with untold cubic centimeters of explosives. Excited, they bore the package gingerly into "a courtyard surrounded by high walls." There they discovered that the senders of the package had given as a return address the name of the respected Prince Bakery in Salsburg and had cunningly concealed their death dealing substance in a juicy cake...
...face like a soiled lemon wafer...
...Manhattan in the kitchen of a restaurant, one Ho Kee, a cook, was mixing curry. A slight noise made him glance behind him; a face like a soiled lemon wafer leered at him from the shadow of a barrel; a roaring flash filled the kitchen. The shot that killed him scorched his apron; he was buried with a .38 calibre revolver in his right hand that he might be equipped to revenge his murder in the next world...
...Carmelite Sisters, Louvain, Belgium, the bread and wine became sacred elements of the body of Our Lord. The priest-saying his first mass-was Count Claude Delbee, one-time officer in the army of the King of the Belgians. To his former wife, the Countess, he gave the wafer, looked upon her, never to look again...
...perhaps they are already beginning to do. Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid yawn before the battle-cry! F. N. ARVIN...