Word: beefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the average heavy eight. This is because much of the smoothness and drive of a shell is provided by the easy swing of the upper body and shoulders of the oarsmen at the catch and that, because light weights must make up in strength what they lack in beef, they muscle out a more strenuous and less rhythmic stroke. The Crimson third heavies versus the first 150's is thus an unpredictable and much discussed meeting...
With probably the biggest beef of all, Ed Wynn ("The Perfect Fool") argues that in 1913 he originated Milton's whole format of introducing all the acts and playing a buffoon in each of them. While displaying an old scrapbook of his jokes, Milton was recently asked to explain a page headed: "Ed Wynn Jokes." Said he: "Those are some jokes Ed Wynn once gave me." Says Wynn in Hollywood: "I never gave him any jokes, nor did I give him permission to steal my life's work...
...those snobs who look down their nose at everything but the most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...
...Magdalena's maiden voyage began uneventfully enough out of London. After a smooth South Atlantic crossing, the liner coasted down to Santos and Buenos Aires, picking up a cargo of Brazilian oranges and Argentine beef, then headed northeast for Rio and home. At 4:45 of a calm, cloudy morning last week, disaster intercepted the Magdalena
...coming down again. Pork packers were glum because of a poor Easter trade; a big New York pork plant closed last week, and hog prices sank to their lowest level ($19.50 per 100 Ibs.) since OPA's end. Because of abundant grain for feeding, this year's beef was also coming down, and was a better grade than last year's. At $24.60 per 100 Ibs., good steers were $1.50 below a month ago. Even lamb, forced to an alltime high partly by heavy losses in the winter storms, was slipping again in Chicago markets last week...