Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white, high-necked, long-sleeved, as Vatican etiquette demands. Half shrouded by a white lace mantilla, her regal head carried a proud coronet, and upon the black cordon of Malta across her bosom depended in eight strands the fabulous Pearls of Savoy, huge as pale butter balls...
...letter states in effect that I sought the role of a martyr. Mr. Francis has often read my contributions to the Harvard Crimson in which I have emphasized that I seek no early martyrdom and that the Socialist Party is not "idealistic" but very much a bread and butter movement of workers who seek better working and living conditions...
Haig Gregory Abdian of Arlington; Benjamin Alexander of Dorchester; Edward Park Anderson of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lyman Henry Butter-field of Rochester, New York; Lester Cramer of Worcester; Emile Mack Despres of New York City; John Charles de Wilde of Shiloh, New Jersey; Joseph Leo Doob of New York City; Jeronie David Frank of New York City; Hirsch Jacob Freed of Brooklyn, New York; Abraham Grossman of Beverly; Ray Hardin of Cincinnati Ohio; Albert Gailord Hart II of White Plains, New York; Beaumont Alexander Herman of Somerville; Leo Tolstol Hurwitz, of Brooklyn. New York; Richard Whitney of Hartford, Connecticut...
...last week Harald Plum, wrestled less successfully with his nerves. His butter companies (Crown Butter and Le Brun) were, he knew, verging on insolvency, due to too great and rapid expansion. More than once in such crises Harald Plum had fiddled with the pistol which he always kept at hand. He claimed that the touch of cold steel soothed him, reminded him that his first millions were made in guns. Last week the pistol went off and Harald Plum crumpled, wounded but not dead...
Soon the Nordisk Trust Co.-exclusively financed by U. S. capital of Danish-American extraction-also suspended payments. Nordisk is a heavy shareholder in Folkebank, which in turn has large holdings in Crown Butter and the other Plum butter company, Le Brun...