Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...
...would have any trouble recognizing its
effects:
...Butcher & Baker...
...crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...that the age-old war between man and his less-educated cousins was proceeding with unwonted vigor. Britain's Ministries of Food and Agriculture joined forces in an offensive against rabbits of all nationalities, by lifting rationing restrictions on the sale of imported rabbits in Britain's butcher shops, and issuing free poison gas to Britain's farmers for the extermination of the domestic variety...