Bowery lodging-houses and ate scrapple in East-Side feeding-dens, and, on more than one occasion, stood in the bread-line at midnight and pondered whether or not I should faint before I fed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Half of the afternoon I had stood in the bread-line; and after dark I returned home, tired and miserable, carrying a quart of rice and a slice of bacon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
May 1992 -- Shells and Death CampsSerb shells kill at least 20 civilians in the so-called bread-line massacre in Sarajevo. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Such bread-line unrest will likely affect local council elections in April, with the hard-line Muslim Brotherhood poised to benefit, says Steven A. Cook, Egypt expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Don't they have a bread-line to stand in or something? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mr Williams said rural and predominantly black areas were beset by a lack of domestic services, incomes below the bread-line, unemployment, violence, a breakdown in social structures, drugs and vagrant children. ❋ Unknown (1995)
Workers must effectively demand their one-pound-a-day or else leaders in industry and commerce will go no further than piously acknowledging that you are paid starvation wages and that 80% of the African people live below the bread-line. ❋ Unknown (1961)
In the bread-line on Monday was Eugene J. Parney, a multi-millionaire, whose gifts to charity have been very large and who recently included ❋ Logan Marshall (N/A)
Googe, unknown, unidentified as yet by three men, Father Honoré and two detectives, who from the dark archway of a sunken area farther down the street were scanning this bread-line. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)
We would stand in the bread-line just like the rest of them and get our roll and coffee. ❋ Dave Ranney (N/A)
It did not seem fair for me to take the £2 or £3 a week paid for the various jobs, and it did not seem fair to oust a man already holding one, for I learned that A.R.P. employment was all that stood between thousands and a bread-line, already made up of a million and a half unemployed. ❋ Unknown (1939)
Canada, like all other nations, is fighting hard to maintain her solvency, to assure the future of her young citizens and to keep their fathers out of the bread-line. ❋ Unknown (1933)
_ -- Cases arise where the parents are on the bread-line and have no means of supporting a child, but the Committee is of opinion that such extreme poverty is rare in New Zealand. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Various Aspects Of The Problem Of Abortion In New Zealand (1927)
The most sympathetic administration would have its hands full for many a year coping with the problem of helping those thousands of our people who have been just on or very near the bread-line. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Various Aspects Of The Problem Of Abortion In New Zealand (1927)
He came to know what it meant to stand in the bread-line, to go the rounds of the homeless "one-night stands." ❋ Unknown (1924)
It is precisely this sort of logic which would treat the Son of Man if He should appear among us, to a bench in Bryant Park, and a place in the bread-line, and send the mounted police to ride down his socialistic meetings in Union Square. ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
He restrained his desire to go over and quote Greek at them, because they were ignorant and not to blame for being sure that they were of clay superior to any one in a bread-line. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
He almost forgot it while waiting in the bread-line, so occupied was he in hating two collegians who watched the line with that open curiosity which nice, clean, respectable young men suppose the poor never notice. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
As he slouched away to join the bread-line, a black deuce in the world's discard, Carl was wondering how he could get that imperial appointment as porter in a Bowery saloon. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
