Word: buttermilk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bankrupt. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 67, General Overseer of Zion City, Ill.; with liabilities of more than $1,000,000, assets of between $600,000 and $800,000; in Chicago. Overseer Voliva, who eats Brazil nuts and buttermilk and believes the world is shaped like a soup-plate, has been trying to salvage his Zion Institutions and Industries Inc.-candy bar, cookie and lace factories, cement plant, bakery, bank, department store and publishing house-since 1933. Its assets were 87? in 1907, $10,000,000 in 1927, $6,000,000 in 1932. Subsequently Rev. Voliva tried to reorganize Zion Industries under...
Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...Actress Tallulah Bankhead cast as a temperamental actress, stalking about on her heels, slapping the furniture to accentuate her outbursts, lowering her voice to a sepulchral baritone, leaning backward at an angle of 30° while combing her hair, ordering a midnight supper of two pork chops, Julienne potatoes, buttermilk, salted peanuts. Written seven years ago by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Craig's Wife and The Show-Off, Reflected Glory at least has the distinction of being Tallulah Bankhead's most creditable vehicle since her repatriation five years...
...spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
...Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...