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...Captain John Smith was considered to possess the unfortunate qualifications of Jonah to the extent of causing a storm at sea, he suffered the same punishment of being cast forth from the ship; but on account either of his greater endurance or of the extra-ordinary lack of great-dish at the time, tradition has it that he out-Jonahed Jonah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN MIRACLES | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

...Crow is not our dish. Only a man with the might of right can force it upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...that is just what this 'sidewalk-reared Prince' has done. He served us our first dish as we sat in the rain at Albany and listened to his acceptance speech. And he has kept us on a steady diet of crow ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virile Tang | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Each summer freshmen at the Pennsylvania State College summer forestry camp are made to eat a dish of rattlesnake. African Negroes relish boa-constrictors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monkey Meat | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

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