Word: cud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...
...have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern Classicist Allen Tate and Northern Romantic Wallace Stevens...
Being the only course which rates full credit, English F packs in for one half year all the men trying to learn to speak. It is usually the beginning and cud of their training, for they cannot waste creditless half years in English E and H. Two impromptu talks and three exercises in delivery are the content, along with five major speeches sandwiched between lectures on subjects like persuasion and commanding attention. The semester is capped, mirabile dictu, by a written examination. Thus in effect the sole course, English F tries to accomplish too much, skimming lightly over each topic...
...stabbings of false conscience. Science, the preachers tell us, can claim too much. A reasonable person cannot expect the food mentors to send Whitings a psychologist to tell when the cows feel contented, or when the outlook for the future sours up. Nobody knows what part of the cud is Cream. But an official taster, specifically selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying...
Practical politicians are still chewing the cud of the Lincoln Day speeches. They were not uninspiring rhetorical hearkenings-back to the glories of a dead past. Dr. Glenn Frank and Senator Van-denburg gave no ordinary speeches on this occasion. But above all former President Hoover's fighting speech was anything but meaningless oratory...