Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million Illinoisans who went to their 90th State Fair in Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
...cancers that ate at the vitals of the Third Republic none was more conspicuously malignant than the "affaire Stavisky." It took its name from Mystery-Millionaire Alexander Stavisky, who one day in 1934 was found shot to death in a snowbound Alpine hideout (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934 et seq.). Sûretée agents had trailed him there to ask him about the failure of the municipal pawnshop at Bayonne, in which Stavisky held the controlling interest...
...himself in 1939 (as He Had It Coming) but it got no popularity until Songstress Fitzgerald unearthed it this spring. Other Houdini songs have had such innocuous themes as I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones and Roosevelt Opens World's Fair. The time King George ate hot dogs with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park moved him to this song...
Arnold Gesell's best friends are children. For 20 years at Yale's Clinic of Child Development he and his associates have looked (through one-way-vision screens) and listened while unsuspecting youngsters slept, ate, talked, learned and played. They know the children better than their own parents...
Albatross & Wild Goat. "The wild life was sport, too-the six-inch penguins, flightless cormorants, pelicans, flamingos. At night, albatross dueled with their bills. The wild goats did the policing, ate all the waste paper...