Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...There's still bread in Russia and as long as there is bread there is no famine. My experience in Russia goes back to periods of relative plenty and virtual famine, and in my opinion the food supply when I left Moscow was worse than at any time since the famine of 1933. Most of the people standing in these queues are women-housewives or servants or older members of a family. But it's always been remarked in Russia that the 'women say what the men think.' And during the periods this winter when...
Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...
...Mickey Rooney seem a brat to his studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom in 1939, he grossed a box-office total of $30,000,000. They saw Mickey Rooney in bread & butter terms, and as such he was the biggest actor of the year in pictures...
...less than 1930, 55% less than 1933. For this Standard Brands could chiefly blame the fact that few U. S. citizens like the taste of yeast, no matter how many vitamins the Fleischmann brand contains. More than a decade ago, when the U. S. housewife had quit baking bread at home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, had an answer: yeast for health. By testimonials, by quotes from scientists, Standard Brands plugged yeast (three cakes a day) for pimples, constipation, that tired feeling. In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast...
Last night Rummy appeared to be resting well, having taking a definite liking to the whiskey. She usually feeds on bread, apples, and bananas form the Lowell House Dining Hall...