Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy tore his bread to crumbs which he scooped from the tablecloth and dumped into his soup. While Johnny postured for company Jimmy reached across the table and ate up all Johnny's soup. "Stop that, Jimmy," cried Father Wood. Jimmy stopped, then surreptitiously kicked Johnny on the shins under the table. Explained Father Wood: "Johnny's a gentleman, but Jimmy's a mug." Added Mother Wood, wearily: "Jimmy's much more bossy. When he wants something...
Some of the warriors who in grudging admiration drank Father Brébeuf's blood and ate his heart lived to enter the Jesuit mission at Caughnawaga as Christian converts. But four more Jesuits and two lay companions died martyrs' deaths before the Iroquois began to relent. And never until scholarly, unassuming Michael Jacobs, born Wishe Karhaienton, was ordained, had a full-blooded Mohawk Iroquois donned the black robe which made him a spiritual brother of Isaac Jogues and Jean de Breb?...
...Warsaw her father had been a physics professor, her mother principal of a girls' school. Their daughter Marie had to flee to France because Russian officials frowned on her efforts to stimulate interest in the Polish language. While studying in Paris she lived in a bare garret, ate meals that cost half a franc a day, met a brooding, handsome young physics instructor whom she twitted for expressing astonishment at her learning, and then married. Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian...
...Great War, steamed the Oriental brothers. The big, splendiferous windup of the King of Kings' junket was at Istanbul where the great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile spry Turks in the sleek-tailed, Frenchified dress suits affected by President Kemal one-stepped and black-bottomed...
...celebration was supposed to commemorate the centenary of the tomato as food, though no one knows for sure when New England farmers became brave enough to eat one. In the U. S. before 1800 witches were practically the only people who ate tomatoes, which everybody thought were poisonous. Indians in Mexico were found munching them as early as the 16th Century. The French prescribed them as a highly effective love potion. Thomas Jefferson had some on his Virginia farm in 1781, dared to use them in sauces and soups. But a woman born in Trenton, N. J. as late...