Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really get substantial food for my wife and children. About three weeks ago my wife said: 'Well, Dad, I went to the butcher and look what I bought for $3.45.' Well, I looked at it, and this is what was there: About a pound and a quarter of a cutlet, about a pound of chop meat, and a little piece of pork which we would say after you trim the fat off it, if it comes to a snowball you have a lot of meat. Now that dinner had to last us Saturday and Sunday for a family...
...think it runs to 35? a pound. So if you buy a little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell you it is no bigger than this little ball (he held up a small flash bulb). Fifteen cents or maybe 20, whatever the butcher charges. That is what you get when he puts it on the scale and that is the conditions in our department, gentlemen...
Sergeant Camille Gagnon, a French-Canadian ex-butcher, lay for 14 hours on the frozen ground, between counterattacking Germans and his comrades on a newly taken hill. His warnings enabled the Canadians to repulse a dozen counterattacks. Then the Germans brought an 88-mm. field gun to bear on Gagnon. Feeling safe, the Germans attacked the hill again. Gagnon, still whole, shouted another warning. The Germans quit trying...
June. In a Bronx courtroom, Mrs. Ella Taffe charged that when she complained to Joseph Scott, butcher, about a chicken he had sold her, he hit her over the head ten times with a side of beef...
They spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show. But the actors who play these four talk about an odd assortment of town characters who never appear...