Word: milk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elephant: It can uproot a tree or pick up a pin. The same might be said of our democratic form of government. In New York City Mayor Hylan has become terribly excited about the City Hall cat, which lapped up six dollars and fifty cents' worth of milk last year. The city administration is aghast at this peculation of the public funds. Why cannot Robert, the cat, eat the scraps from the janitor's table and save the common people all this vast expenditure? cry the city fathers. The Mayor has ordered a "sweeping investigation," a "drastic inquiry" into this...
...industries, actors, teachers, writers, experts and Government workers of all sorts. The second class is of all other sorts of workers. The third is of people who do not work the leisure class. . . . The children are in a class by themselves: class A1. They get all the few delicacies--milk, eggs, fruit, game. 'Even the rich children have as much as the poor children.'" Did, this nation not have a Food Controller during...
Think of synthetic steaks at five cents a pound, eggs, fresh from the factory, and milk, its supply unlimited by the number of cows, piped to your room direct from the laboratory. And even if we can't bring ourselves to think of this, we might consent to take our food in pill form until the profiteers cease from profiteering...
...eight minute ride to town, we ought at least to have the facilities offered by the former nickel fare. Moreover, I am sure that residents in the vicinity will appreciate action by the students to have the entrance reopened. Can't we get in touch with 131 Milk street and have our needed accommodations restored? HAROLD W. CONNOLLY...
...Bookman" is published an article entitled "Detestable Words." This gives a few examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...