Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half a loaf of bread and a large piece of goat's milk cheese down the narrow 50-ft. well to keep his duck from starving, went to warn the authorities...
...lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme C : a reward was offered to any citizen of Ihlamour who would allow himself to be lowered 50 feet down the well...
...American tommyrot which constitutes 90% of all films shown in Denmark, is essentially calculated for Negro tribes and other half wild peoples. The so-called 'sound-films' which have arisen lately have not made things any better, they are merely snatching the bread out of Danish musicians' mouths.* Yet our authorities have been persuaded to suppress Russian films, which are culturally and artistically miles beyond the American...
...fired to save a few cents what would happen to a professor in George F. Banker's business school who dared to advocate the social ownership of public utilities? How much faith, fellow students, can we put in the teachings of social science professors who rely for their bread and butter on the good will of the autocrats whose social philosophy has been exposed by the case of the 20 scrubwomen...
...loaf of bread", the Walrus said...