Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ate dead hog for dinner," or I can say "I ate roast pork." In both cases I would be correct. The President could get "scattered cheers," or he could get applause. Both are correct. But "scattered cheers" shows your bias in the matter. In another place, you use the words "My frien-n-nds," as though to deride the President's speech, when "My friends," would do just as well, and carry no sense of a jeer. You will say no such effect is intended, but I am the judge of the effect it produces...
...lithe bronze body, her wild sense of rhythm. Soon she was able to conduct her own night club, buy a chateau, a bed which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the premi...
Told to increase her weight by at least 40 Ib. before she plays plump Queen Victoria in Manhattan this winter, Helen, Hayes ate her first birthday cake in 15 years, proudly announced that she already weighs 103 lb., said. 'I want to be luscious-luscious...
...Groupers led by Dr. Buchman has been working in Geneva, lobbying spiritually at many a meal. Their efforts seemed to reach a climax when they visited the President of Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 23), but last fortnight that visit was out-climaxed when Dr. Buchman and part of the Team ate luncheon with a good section of the League of Nations Assembly at the invitation of its President Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Among the 500 people whom smart little Dr. Benes welcomed with a polite speech at the hotel des Bergues were: the Belgian Foreign Minister, the Turkish...
Better off were the correspondents with the Italian army in Eritrea. They were given special provisions, treated as officers without rank. They ate at the officers' mess, billeted with the troops, were furnished transportation by motor, horse, mules. Toughest assignment was handed UNIPressman Herbert R. Ekins. Newshawk Ekins, who covered the Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were...