Word: zwieback
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...Lasik himself. In Germany he is delighted to find that "everyone around him spoke Yiddish, though in a slightly imperfect way." In his lunatic vision, the Weimar Republic becomes a memorable cartoon-rather as if George Grosz had been a Disney animator. On a diet of zwieback, Lasik sits in a druggist's window advertising the shocking effects of not drinking cod liver oil; later he understudies for a circus monkey. Small wonder that when he wants to invoke God he swears "in the name of all that is being ridiculed...
Despite these measures millions of Frenchmen found themselves without baguettes. In desperation some turned to their grocery stores, distastefully buying packages of biscotte, square slices of Zwieback. Others resorted to stronger action. In Paris irate customers heaved bricks through bakeshop windows. In the town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mayor Charles Fourtine, despondent over the insults hurled at him by angry citizens who felt that it was up to him to keep the town adequately supplied with bread, climbed a power pylon and killed himself by grasping a 100,000-volt high-tension wire...
Last week the U.S.A.F.'s Northeast Air Command opened a procurement office in St. John's Water Street. It had a list of Newfoundland firms ready to provide anything from Alka Seltzer to zwieback. In its first week the new office placed $17,340 worth of orders and signed a contract for a month's ration of bread. Newfoundland merchants beamed. The Yanks were bringing boom times, and the end was nowhere in sight...
...hours a day, in seven-minute intervals. At 10:30 a. m. he takes a nap. Like most featured players he has two "stand-ins"' (understudies) to take his place on the set while lights and props are being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair...
...crackers in cartons instead of bulk. The campaign worked. The public obeyed. Uneeda became one of the great U. S. trade-names. Today National is the world's biggest biscuit baker, has 84 plants in 29 States. It also makes bread, dog biscuits, Shredded Wheat, gingerbread goodies, peanut butter, zwieback, macaroni, pretzels. Its assets come to $138,000,000 of which $38,000.000 is working capital. Last year it earned $22,800,000, most of which was paid out in dividends to about 23.000 shareholders. It is one of those select companies which are in the First National...