Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Released an avalanche of white & black bread, baked from flour previously stored in State warehouses (partly against the possibility of war with Japan), which was offered for sale without restriction or food cards last week in 50 Moscow Soviet stores. Instanter lines formed in front of every store (one line was estimated by correspondents at 1,100 persons). Nonchalantly the all-powerful State intimated that avalanches of candy, canned meat, canned vegetables and canned fish might be released from the same or additional stores at any moment...
...That night 72 Roosevelts & kin dined at the White House. Republican Alice Roosevelt Longworth broke bread with her Democratic fifth cousin. Afterwards the First Lady took five carloads of relatives to the Inaugural Ball. John, her youngest son, escorted Barbara Gushing, sister of his brother James's wife. Around the floor of the Washington Auditorium they shuffled with 6,000 other dancers while 2.000 oldsters watched from boxes. The proceeds went to charity...
...Holly, N. J., Ralph Eshelman, bread wagon driver, noticed on two successive days that Joseph Carney, dumb cripple, was peering out of his window, tapping feebly on the pane. On the third day Eshelman broke in the door, found famished Joseph Carney alone with the body of his mother, two days dead...
Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: "Why don't they eat cake?" Her brief (298-page) biography is a partisan but appealing argument in favor of Marie Antoinette's humanity...
...Provision for daily bread will be as important a concern for us as fulfillment of social obligations toward the sick and aged...