Word: beefed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University is going to feed a man "roast beef, au jus" and "au gratin potatoes" at the same meal, the least the French department can do is teach him how correctly to describe his predicament. The French A student is prepared to read "L'Illustration", but he cannot quote, without the largest misgivings, a "New Yorker" article mentioning "crepes suzettes," or the "joie...
Odors of roast beef, warm rubber and ozone pervaded the 22nd floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Hotel Kansas Citian last week. The odors arose from electric knives, heat applicators and ultraviolet light generators in operation. Those machines and a variety of similar medical machines, ornamented with shiny chromium and nickel, dials, gauges, thermometers, bulbs, motors, rheostats, pedals, levers, knobs and buttons were working because 400 physicians who are sincerely trying to put physical therapy on a respectable basis in the U. S. met in Kansas City to conduct a Congress of Physical Therapy...
...Manhattan, gaunt, long-faced Edith Hanson, 39, casually drank five free bottles of beer and borrowed $10 from Delicatessen Owners Robert Wolf and Alfred Wolitsky in the course of ordering 125 corned beef sandwiches, 50 liverwurst sandwiches ("peeled"), 75 limburger sandwiches ("smeared thin"), 150 turkey sandwiches (white meat) to be delivered within six hours to Welfare Island's hospital prison, as well as a standing weekly order of 350 shrimp salads and 600 coleslaw salads. Delicatesseners Wolf and Wolitsky, their suspicions aroused on the ground that "sick people don't eat coleslaw," investigated, discovered that Miss Hanson...
...inch of the way. can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost (2?each), with a special price of $1.50 per hundred...
...work as Brady, Universal paid Edward Arnold $5,000 a week, ordered him to fatten up. Eating is Actor Arnold's only hobby. In his dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving...