Word: beef
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must have been the beef. We've never been this way before. It's all a pack of lies. But tonight the waiter brought us some red, red beef. It looked quite angry or embarrassed, two conditions which induce rudd' ness. But the white-coated Ganymede quieted our fears. "It's rare, not very well done," he vowed...
...time is up. Gentlemen, like the beef, this is a rare column...
...irony and bathos. Brother Alphonse and Brother Guido quarrel in the garden; a dream reconciles them. They argue of a prehistoric monster; the Father Superior sends them to the circus, which they miss through absentmindedness, forgetting their monster with their destination. Not by grace but by slices of red beef does Brother Exuper tame the fearsome mastiff. The monument achieved by Brother Giles, after unseemly longing, is his huge foot print in a new cellar floor. By such simple means is the essence of a faith distilled, not for the saints but for the love...
Hindus are idolaters, and would die rather than eat the sacred flesh of cow or bull. Moslems are beef-eaters,* and abhor idolatry. Last week Swami Shradanand, noted Hindu Brahman, sat down to discuss religious matters with one Abdul Rashid, a Mohammedan, at Delhi, capital of British India. Soon they disagreed. The courtly Swami ("Lord") Shradanand sought to avoid dispute by requesting the Mohammedan to call again when they might discourse with cooler heads. Abdul Rashid, vitally vexed, drew a revolver and shot the Swami dead, was captured, jailed...
...pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind...