Word: beefed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gentleman Farmer Thorne, whose ancestral acres stretch over the high-rolling hills of Dutchess County, was highly pleased. "It proves," he said, "what I have been trying to convince Eastern farmers all along. . . . They can compete with other regions in beef cattle as well as in dairy herds...
...James Cash Penney, chainstore tycoon, paid $8.25 per lb. for 920-lb. World's Grand Champion Lucky Strike. World's Champion beef commands fancy prices when served in hotels or dining cars, brings its vendor publicity...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...Beef on the Hoof...
...wives have nothing to worry their silly heads about. The four children talk a good deal about how "shy-making" are their parents' stodginess and lack of imagination. Charles Battle (A. E. Matthews) is a stockbroker in The City. Alfred Granger, a barrister, is a hearty, roast-beef-of-Old-England sort of fellow...