Word: asparagus
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...hours a day, he became acquainted with a group of delightfully crazy anarchists and socialists, carried the soap-box from which they poured forth extraordinary denunciations of capitalism, marriage, etc., and, later, passed the hat. He was clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu " (which sounds singularly evil). His one and only lucrative job evaporated when he discovered that, quite without his knowledge...
...game will come out so as they can bet vice versa. Well friends in the 1st. place I don't think the game will come out as I think they made a big mistake putting it on the same day when the Eagles plays there national game of asparagus with the whelps on the bowling green at Gloucester. There is the contest that will draw the crowd and how can you whipper snappers thinks you can pay expenses is a misery...
...Minot in his article in your columns Saturday said that "we find broiled capons on the menu rather than beef and lamb, which medical authorities consider unquestionably to be more nutritious; and strawberries, asparagus, or grape fruit at the very season when these only moderately nourishing delicacies are most expensive." If the object of the training table is to promote the physical efficiency of the athlete, and if strawberries in December and aspargus in February do not particularly promote that efficiency, I cannot see why they are necessary or even desirable. A man who is taking hard exercise needs good...
...spirit of the training table today is to have the best at any cost. On this supposition we find broiled capons on the menu rather than beef and lamb, which medical authorities consider unquestionably to be more nutritious; and strawberries, asparagus or grape fruit at the very season when these only moderately nourishing delicacies are most expensive...
Green Peas. Asparagus...