Word: chews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets' wives are fitted to write about their lately lyric husbands, but some do. Latest rusher-in is Helen Thomas, relict of the late Edward Thomas, who was killed at Arras in 1917. If you have a sweet tooth for idyllic romance you will chew on this with gusto; if not, World Without End may make your teeth a little edgy...
Only ten States (in the Southeast) are comparatively free from mice. In the other 38 States, 1,000 mice allowed to run on the 65 million acres of hay raised per year would chew up 30 million dollars worth of hay. They kill trees, chew up gardens, nibble at stored grain. It is estimated that Connecticut has lost $500,000 in fruit crops during years when mice were plentiful. Sick mice infect pigs with erysipelas; pigs pass it on to humans...
Thus ended the State's strangest election. The appeal to the voters by both the Republican and the Democratic candidate was that he had been State head of the American Legion. Republican Haucke made known that he did not smoke, drink, chew or go to dances. Democrat Woodring made known that he was an expert crocheter. Political enemies even went so far as to claim he once won a county crocheting prize. His history: born in Neodesha, Kan., into a family of several sisters, served in the War, became a Neodesha bank cashier, resigned to run for the governorship...
...detective] merely shows what a big, strong guy he is by starting to lift her from the ground by her hair. That usually makes her feel more like talking. Or, especially if she isn't young and attractive, he may expectorate in her face. Some detectives chew tobacco...
Rolling, puffing his famous long cigar (he did not chew on it), Censor Smith graduated to Solicitor-General, then Attorney-General, becoming meanwhile Sir Frederick Smith, Bart. One evening, after the election of 1918, he was asked by Prime Minister David Lloyd George to make the most momentous decision of his life, given only until morning to decide: Would he or would he not accept the supreme judicial office of Lord High Chancellor, sit upon the sacred woolsack...