Word: beefsteak
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...Sowerby went again to Europe, the first composer to be awarded a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. In Rome his colleagues twitted him for wearing suits that were a little too natty, for ties that never quite went with his vivid shirts, for preferring burned beefsteak to the Italian delicacies that the other Prix de Rome students were learning to fancy, for sitting down methodically eight hours a day to write music which might or might not go into the wastebasket...
Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...
...make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning...
...Daily News drama critic), delved deep into the gory lore of Chicago's dirty past, took no pains to paint a pretty picture. With a World's Fair in the offing, with a concerted effort on the part of its more worthy citizenry to put raw beefsteak on Chicago's black eye, Author Smith has now changed his vein. In Chicago: A Portrait Mr. Smith, writing alone, turns to glorification...
...bustling little city of Temesvar, last week, one Mme. Borugsch, convicted of the murder of one Anna Lowinal, rival in love, was stripped to the waist, lashed 60 times with cat-o'-nine-tails till her back was raw as a beefsteak. Applauded the French Echo de Paris...