Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edwards and his two assistants, an ex-butcher named George Burton and his wife Olive, are dressed in medical-looking white. Silently they wait, heads bowed, for two minutes' meditation; then the patient is placed in a straight-backed chair facing Harry Edwards...
...with, a museum-like array of fine statues, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and silver. Publisher Patterson is too busy for household affairs, lets her secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally...
Migros now has 289 grocery stores-145 of them self-service and ten of them fancy supermarkets-as well as nine butcher shops, three clothing stores, and 70 sales trucks that service rural areas. And Migros has revolutionized other fields as well. In the Depression Duttweiler signed up a number of Swiss hotels, many of them half empty or near bankruptcy, in a plan to provide cheap vacation tours. His Hotel Plan, which offered eight-day, all-expense holidays for as little as $45, caught on quickly, bailed the hotels out, and last year grossed...
...stages. Meat has become increasingly plentiful in recent months, and off-ration purchases of good cuts could frequently be made-for a price. Many Socialists predicted that de-rationing would send prices even higher, but at least Britain's housewives were legally free of one tyrant-the local butcher. Last week, after standing in queues outside butchers' doors for more than a decade, the Association of London Housewives got to their feet once more to stage a rally in Trafalgar Square and beef about the butcher...
Calumny. In Adams, Wis., the Adams County Times carried this personal notice: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Stop the evil gossip that I used a butcher knife on my husband, Walter. It is not so . . . Mrs. Walter Buchanan...