Word: butchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plot of Gerhardi's satire on reincarnation revolves about a character called Hector Rigoletto, a butcher who is mystically able to determine who all the other characters were in their "former existences." Rigoletto himself, played by Mendy Welagal '45, had been Aristotle and Abelard...
...Detroit's cosmopolitan Petoskey section, hoodlums last week systematically scarred the windows of 41 kosher butcher shops with acid. Apparently well-organized, the vandals carried specially insulated buckets, drove cars with license plates covered. Police had no clue as to their identity...
...Butcher shops felt the full weight of buyers' disdain. Prices fell rapidly in most cities. When the price of a pair of pajamas was quoted at $5.75, a San Antonio bank clerk snapped: "I'll keep on sleeping in old shirts instead." Boston's R. H. White department store, which for years could not keep any bedroom furniture on its floor, got a carload at the beginning of the week, still had almost all of it at week...
...Memoriam. In South Bend, an old customer walked into Russell McDaniels' meatless butcher shop, thanked him for past services, gave him a large steak...
...week's end, meat prices had sagged a little (one Manhattan butcher shop sold sirloin for 68? a pound); and buyer resistance was up to its postwar peak. The resistance was partly fear, partly doubt, and partly an out-&-out inability to pay the price. But more than that, people were beginning to feel like unmitigated suckers...