Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...issue riddled Senate has rejected Judge Parker who has been a storm cearer in the question of filling the Supreme Court chair left vacant by the late Justice Sanford. Party lines have been more tenuous than they were in the good days when a Republican lived on bread and beer a Democrat lived on bread and beer and both fought for hours about the tariff...
...Amherst money market is responding well to the bullish forces with a best for the more uncertain in uses, there should be an impetus to the interest in Wall Street already exhibited by the men of the cloth. There have been surer methods of providing for the daily bread, but none have transcended mediocrity with a more ecstatic revelation of the divine afflatus than glows beneath the raftered roof of the chapel in the Berkshires...
...Considering everything," said Mr. Bristow, "they treated me pretty fair. What I missed most was a chaw of tobacco. I had plenty to eat except when the Federal troops got too close, then we all had nothing but bread and water. Wild turkeys were roosting all around us but nobody dared shoot at them for fear the Federals would hear. My closest escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some...
When Mr. Hoover as President-Elect was feted in Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 24. 1928), he roused tremendous popular enthusiasm by calling Argentina "the world's bread basket," a remark which Argentines misunderstood to mean that Mr. Hoover favored the introduction of bread made from Argentine flour into U. S. bread baskets...
...work was prolific, typically Parisian: spirited, gay, colorful, slightly malicious. His whiskered gallants, snorting horses and elegant courtesans completely picture Victorian and Second Empire Europe, make Britain's John Leech seem as stodgy as bread pudding...