Word: cereals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Franklin Roosevelt was offered nothing more than cereal and coffee for breakfast. A small electric stove on the third floor of the White House was all that provided the President of the U. S. with hot food. Rated capacity of the stove was three modest meals at a time. Franklin Roosevelt was keeping bachelor hall. Mrs. Roosevelt had scampered off to Campobello Island in Canada. Left in the White House with the President were only his sick secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Howe and Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand. Since neither the President nor ailing...
...first thing President Roosevelt does each morning when he wakes in the White House is to read in bed the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post. Then his breakfast of orange juice, cereal, eggs, toast & coffee is brought to him on a tray. One morning last week the President lay abed reading things in the newspapers that might well have taken away his appetite for breakfast. The Press was fairly bellowing with indignation at him because it appeared that he was cocked & primed to ramrod his social reform tax bill through Congress...
Young Grass. Previous tests on the nutriment value of cereal grasses, said Dr. C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Kans., were misleading because the grass was too old. Dr. Schnabel took tender, young shoots of wheat, barley, oats, rye, ground them to a meal tasting like malted milk powder, found its food value two to five times greater than spinach, carrots, lettuce or chard, its vitamin content up to 50 times greater. Hens fed on this meal laid twice as many eggs containing fivefold as much Vitamin...
...liquid diet was administered through a nasal catheter for two months. It consisted of four coddled eggs, one pint of milk, one pint of cream, the juice of six oranges, cooked cereal, thin custard, vegetable soup and brewers' yeast. After the fever subsided, one-half ounce of cod liver oil was added. She gained weight so rapidly that the caloric value had to be reduced. When swallowing returned, the catheter was placed in her mouth. She still drinks in this manner, lying on her back with her head turned to the side...
...earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more than swallow cereal and retain his composure when Lee Tracy, blowing in his face, addresses him as "Poochy." He discharges these duties capably, seems less eager to steal scenes than most of his contemporaries, and is therefore star material...