Word: food
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...While the Duke tasted of the daily food of the students, we visited the marvelous library, the study room where the students could be seen at work for they had not been asked to leave despite the royal visit, until finally we entered the room for guests of honor where the King and Queen signed the Golden Book...
...particular newspaper office to which it goes each day to express its opinion. The Public has more shapes than Geryon in a palace of trick mirrors, and less intelligence than Triceratops, who could have swallowed his brain at a gulp. It allows the "laws of economics" to provide its food and clothing; and when a great Strike supervenes, it puts its Great Seal of approval on Published Opinion, in some such form as this: Such things should not be; they must stop; the guilty ones must be punished...
...third is of people who do not work the leisure class. . . . The children are in a class by themselves: class A1. They get all the few delicacies--milk, eggs, fruit, game. 'Even the rich children have as much as the poor children.'" Did, this nation not have a Food Controller during...
...general. The occasion for his attack is the publication by the Federal Trade Commission of a third volume of damaging revelation concerning the big packers, and the advocacy by that body and by the Department of Agriculture of Federal control as a means to bring down the price of food. The Commission secured the services of certain Socialist reformers in its investigation. The packers are making a last stand to preserve their private monopoly; and Senator Watson is their involuntary spokesman. But federal control of a private monopoly is not the usual definition of Bolshevism. Senator Watson balks...
...whiskey breath; no idiotic gaiety can be found in our cafes; every one is serious; no one drinks nor even desires a drink, for all realize now what a fearful poison alcohol is, and without exception the nation rejoices in the profound conviction that wine is neither a food nor an excellent beverage, that the pleasant hours and the comradeship which it gave us were but hallucinations...