Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Hotel, he threw a party for Southern stockholders. About 100 people showed up. (To forthcoming parties in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, nearly 14,000 stockholders have accepted invitations.) After a talk by President Mack on Pepsi's operations stockholders were treated to ham, cheese, roast beef and chicken sandwiches, coffee, Pepsi-Cola. President Mack himself, looking not unlike Movie Butler Arthur Treacher, passed around a tray of hors d'oeuvres . One happy stockholder's verdict of the party: "It kind of hit the spot...
...from the same point of view, is equally impregnable. As one sovereign government to another, Greece would ask of the United States money with which to bolster up her ramshackle economy, civilian experts to aid her in reconstructing her war-torn country--and military experts and materiel to beef up her army of over 100,000 men. By so doing, the United States would take up where Britain left off--aiding the present Greek government to root out and destroy the EAM forces in the north and to supply the Greek and Turkish governments with the economic and military wherewithal...
...gravy train made another Mississippi whistle stop. Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo finally came across with the $100,000 church and parsonage he had been promising constituents ever since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn...
...paper concluded that in order to purchase two pounds of beef today a bank clerk must work ten hours, a judge four hours, a mechanic six hours...
...loves to buy drinks for the boys, and they love to let him. He also treats himself-to whopping feasts (thick steaks of corn-fed beef, hot biscuits, baked and buttery potatoes, lots of black pepper and paprika). Six years ago he tried to reduce, got irritable ruptured an eardrum and his appendix, went back to gourmandizing, and has felt fine ever since. Saturday nights, after drinks, a steam bath, a rubdown and dinner at the Kansas City Club, he goes back to work: "so the rest of the staff can't say that the big fat bastard...