Word: beefsteak
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...Cheshire Cheese, famed London eating house, where luscious mutton chops, sizzling steaks, lean cold lamb, stodgy but satisfying beefsteak puddings and, last but by no means least, palate-tickling lark puddings are served to as many U. S. men and women in London as are wont to drink at the Ritz Bar in Paris?this old London "coffee house" celebrated last week the opening of the winter pudding season with its 152nd annual dinner...
...asked to put a money value on the worth of this wife to her husband. I award two shilling and sixpence [60c]." So said last week the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, Privy Councillor, member in good standing of the Beefsteak Club, and Lord Chief Justice of England. He was clearing up an undefended suit for divorce brought by the husband who asked ?200 ($970) damages from a man with whom the wife had committed adultery...
...from the birthplace of his dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such...
...Berlin, one Dr. Troska took a sharp knife, placed it on a piece of beefsteak, exerted a pressure of 800 pounds, thereby calculated the amount of energy necessary for each human chew of meat. A dog, said he, expends energy equal to 3,200 pounds in biting through a bone. Scientists scoffed, said that Chewer-Experimenter Troska was wasting his time...
...There the tenderfoot doesn't step out daintily for breakfast. He has a lean, hungry look on his face after eating a half hour, and wants to know where the rest of the animal is after devouring a couple of pounds of beefsteak...