Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter house. A Pennsylvania packing company bought...
...stillness of the night a few smouldering embers lie red against the black of night. A faint smell of smoke drifts by on the summer wind. A little dog sniffs about in the ashes to salvage a hastily remembered bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied...
Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...
...roads keep their heads above water? Railroad costs consist of taxes, interest on bonds, supplies and labor. Taxes and interest are fixed. Supplies have already been cut to the bone. The only thing left to cut is wages. With little faith in the I. C. C. plan, the roads' executives looked, last week, in the direction of Labor...
Last week the executive committee of the National Grange, potent farm organization (800,000 members), met in Washington and voted bone Dry. "It stands to reason," said the Grange, "that if the American people should spend a large percentage of their earnings for beer they would have just that much less to spend for food, clothing and shelter." Also, the Grange postulated a relationship between strong drink and dairy products, for its own reasons taking the War year of 1917 as a reference point...