Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks of U. S. apples or pears for every three quarts of French wine drunk...
With their upperclass colleagues in the Houses eating breakfast at 9.30, and in dining hails conveniently near, the Freshmen have some cause to complain of their present system. Their Dana Hall breakfast hour only causes inconvenience to individual students, and an 8.29 A.M. chaos in the dining hall. It is no good answer to the suggested change that it would only succeed in pushing forward this chaos to 8.45. In the Houses, students who have 9 o'clock classes have found it advisable to appear in the dining hall before 8.30. The benefit of the later hour would accrue chiefly...
...thirsty scholars. Another man filled the capacities of bursar, dean's office, parietal board, and coop. This worthy was the steward, who kept track of absences, excuses, and suspensions, and collected fines and imposed other disciplinary action. He also arranged for "special orders" for the students who wished to eat in the sanctity of their rooms, and who were well equipped to prepare their nightly repasts. The night of the fire, these backbones of the College lost their offices, and their records were forever lost...
Such is the nature of statesmen that without the seating list they could not eat. President Terra is the Dictator of Uruguay in affairs of state but he dared not try to seat his guests for fear of making a faux pas. Secretary Hull, though he had urged "informality" and harped on President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy" ever since the Conference opened, did not rise to this emergency with any such suggestion as "Why don't we all just sit down...
Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...