Word: devour
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...Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...sprightly blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived in a U. S. that was already smiling behind its hand. The rumors of his long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof...
Satan disguised as a dragon had fallen upon the moon and was determined to devour it entire. The Turks ran indoors, got their rifles, ran out again. As fast as they could load & fire, they shot at the invisible dragon, whose infernal bite mark on the moon was dreadfully visible...
Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...
...radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...