Relief Fragments

Famous quotes containing the words relief and/or fragments:

    “The menu was stewed liver and rice, fricassee of bones, and shredded dog biscuit. The dinner was greatly appreciated; the guests ate until they could eat no more, and Elisha Dyer’s dachshund so overtaxed its capacities that it fell unconscious by its plate and had to be carried home.”
    —For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “There came a burst of thunder sound;
    The boy—Oh! where was he?
    MAsk of the winds, that far around
    With fragments strewed the sea;—”
    —Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)