Word: cocoa
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...peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest...
...Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa, bananas...
...travel agencies in the U. S., advertising special combinations of gift Pakete in German-language newspapers, handled this traffic. Prices were high. A Pakete containing 2 Ibs. of butter, 2 Ibs. of cheese, 2 Ibs. of condensed milk, 1 Ib. of lard, ½Ib. of coffee, ½Ib. of cocoa cost $5.95. The cost of sending 8 Ibs. of butter: $7.50. (Pounds were German pounds, slightly larger than U. S.) Cost did not discourage senders. Fortra Corp. of Manhattan declared it had placed 30,000 food packages in Germany in less than three months, was doing a volume of business...
...characters hung. Born a Hungarian Jew. he added the Lincoln to his name, he said, in admiration for the Great Emancipator. He went to England, somehow became a Presbyterian missionary, turned himself into an Anglican curate, made himself a Quaker when he was secretary to Quaker B. Seebohm Rowntree (cocoa). Trebitsch Lincoln, before World War I, got himself elected M. P. for Darlington, was accused in a secret session of Parliament of being a spy. Later it was rumored he had spied for both the Allies and Germany. He made his way to the U. S., was extradited to England...
...Bolivia, which did a $28,956,000 trade with Britain in 1937 (1938 figures unavailable), looked for a U. S. market for her hides, horns, cocoa in order to build up a credit balance to buy U. S. goods...