Word: butcherer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning, Charles Wayland followed his brother. He followed him from Illinois to Nebraska. There he set up a butcher shop in Lincoln. Later he turned to retailing cigars in Omaha. He was there when William Jennings launched out on the Spirit...
Peter grew up, cheerful, well-pursed. He had all but completed his education at the famed Bah-Bah University, when he fell in love with the fair Georgina, butcher's daughter. Peter's stern parent forbade the match, threatened to cut him off with but a single pig. To cure him of his passion, it was decided to ship him off to Paris with his tutor and mentor, one Rufus Gabbe, M.A., Ph.D., panegyrist of Bah-Bah philosophy...
...University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels, but the actual cause of death was a wasting of the body resulting from degeneration...
...great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
...nine his mother brought him and six younger brothers to America. They settled on a farm in Indiana, near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...