Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particulars the perturbed Dutch statesmen could not give. They knew only that a man-eating Papuan tribe had raided the village of Atoika and, after an all night battle, sat down as victors to a banquet at which they ate not only slaughtered enemies but fallen members of their own attacking party. Then, having rounded up the plumpest, tenderest women of Atoika, the victors loaded them with spoil, led them off to various cannibal villages in the interior...
...last week a stocky, swarthy, middle-aged man ate luncheon, as was his wont, in the Coffee Shoppe of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. When he was finished he bought a cigar and a form sheet for that afternoon's horse races at Washington Park. Smoking and reading he walked toward the Illinois Central railroad station, entered the crowded pedestrian tunnel passing under Michigan Avenue. As he neared the tunnel's exit, another man stepped behind him, thrust a "belly-gun" (sawed-off revolver) close to the back of his head, fired a .38-calibre bullet through his brain...
...with Jones before the tournament, followed the play as though it were just a rather specially jolly match, with an inevitable conclusion, between her brother and a friend. After a good first nine, Brother Roger went, as usual, erratic. Jones stayed at top form. Four up at lunch, he ate a fruit salad, drank a glass of milk, went out and finished off match and title...
With a sack inside his vest, wily jack-the-giant-killer climbed the beanstalk and banqueted competitively with the Giant. While giant ate, Jack stuffed sack instead of stomach. Then, with a sword, he disgorged the sack's contents. Not to be outdone, the giant ripped himself open, died...
Lawless, the newly-formed London Gourmets Club ate plovers' eggs at their second banquet, fortnight ago, washed this typical sportsman's delicacy down with Château d'Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...